Ultima cena (The last supper) by Mario Ceroli

After encountering informal and pop art, in the 1960s Ceroli began to create wooden figures and objects that he covered, sometimes with only a resin. 

Right from the start wood was the medium privileged in the artist’s production. The boards were left raw and unfinished, arranged in joined and juxtaposed positions.

The use of wood in its “primary” state corresponds to a reduction of the human figure from a three-dimensional presence to the consistency of a silhouette: 

the uniqueness of the frontal presentation is lost to the anonymity of the profile.