by Alberto Sordi

Artwork Description

Space is the Place

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I used the slogan of the late African - American musician Sun - Ra as a title, a pseudonym that indicated his identification with the greatest Egyptian solar deity. Tired of living on our tormented planet, Sun - Ra showed us the way of sidereal spaces: Space is the Place (where to go and live). In the scenario, usual and unusual celestial bodies begin to be connected to each other with roads of light, which can also be traveled by car. On the planet in the foreground we can recognize a home of the new cosmic pioneers (actually a B & B from Quebec, where I stayed) surrounded by the remains of a vanished civilization reminiscent of ancient Egypt, a wagon carrying a large meteorite, stuck on a dead track, astral explorers, the occupants of a buggy, pulled by a robot while trying to shoot a couple of local animals that seem to threaten them and old radio and television systems, from science fiction of the 50s. Among the galaxies, as well as various types of aircraft, an alien looking out at the keyhole, like from a balcony, winks at everything.

Artwork Details

Medium: Mixed Media

Genre: Surrealism