I have turned the back to the life!

An artist with a strong personality and incisive pictorial technique, Guida often presents works, sometimes deriving from antiquity, which immerse figures made with expressionist lines in a bath of colors, preferably red. In reality, his investigation is continuous and insistent, recently coming to a reinterpretation of baroque sentiment, intended as an exhibition of amazement and wonder. In the work presented here, the dialectic between the dark background and the woman's body is made even more intense by the presence of tattoos that mark her body. In detail, the large head of an Indian chief traversing her feminine back alludes to a movement towards the exotic that, conversely, the static nature of the whole seems to deny. The choice of the contrast between red and black not only evokes passionate suggestions, but also has the power to suspend the image within a sort of theater of cruelty, in which the subject's recognizability disappears in the loss of every minimal reference to a particular physiognomy.