federico-cortese

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I was born in 1971 in Turin, where I live and work as an independent artist and as an architect, collaborating with several design offices.
In my artistic research I am mainly interested in the study of language. Every language is created with the purpose of communicating information. But each language also has formal rules stemming from the purpose for which it is used. Is it possible to isolate from one language only its formal rules, as if they were a decoration? And what happens if I apply that structure to another language? How its meaning will change? What will remain of the original meaning of the language?
When we consider a road map or a map of the territory we note that they contain different information that are represented by different means, according to the purpose for which they were created: each time we find colors, symbols and words that recall a precise meaning. What happens if I take these techniques of representation, these symbols, and take off the scope for which they were created and mingle them with each other? Will it be for the reader a text in a foreign language, that is meaningless, or through the world of associations and references that each of us possesses, will generate a new language?
In another example, a bar code is nothing but the representation of a series of numbers through lines of different thickness. Is it possible to extrapolate from that language his formal structure in order to develop a new language? This new language will be able to generate new meanings? To do this you can work on formal rules, studying possible changes and developments, increasingly moving away from the point of departure.
In my drawings I try to apply this process of work. The subjects of my study are the cartographic representation, the figures in the manuals of medicine, the sheets of the herbals with their rules for the classification of the plants, the ancient manuals that collect all the known form of real and imaginary animals, the facial expressions and physiognomy, the pornography, the structure of flags, and so on. All these are languages owning their own lexicon; my trial is to isolate and reinvent that lexicon.
In the oil paintings something different happens. I usually paint on canvas when I need to tell a story. Often this story takes origin form something that is related to my personal experience, or from my real life, something I’ve read, someone i’ve known. This is why the most part of my canvases aren’t part of a series but are isolated narrations.
My preferred techniques are classic oils on canvas paintings, and pencil drawings that I paint afterwards with oil colors. In both cases the work proceeds always sedimenting several layers one on the other.

The reading room

$1,200

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Relief number 9

$250

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Abandoned room

$890

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The reading room

$680

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Cromatica

$580

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Little house

$240

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Little house

$180

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Cypher number 49

$380

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Motorcycle

$2,250

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The infinite city

$400

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The infinite city

$495

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Constellation number 10

$300

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The dog head

$720

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The coral cat head

$720

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Serendipity

$1,320

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Cromatica

$150

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Chromatic 3

$150

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Cromatica number 2

$520

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Chromatic

$125

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Chromatic

$125

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Blast number 2

$460

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Blast number 1

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The second voyage of Christopher Columbus, 1493

$480

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A journey to Italy, Alassio

$360

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Berlin Alexanderplatz

$360

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Berlin Alexanderplatz

$360

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Envy

$125

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The player

$125

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The cities of Mars

$395

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Memory of Santorini

$460

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Memory of Santorini

$460

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Withered tree

$390

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The wedding of my mother, 1968

$340

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The wedding of my mother, 1968

$340

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The wedding of my mother, 1968

$340

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Flag number 12

$480

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The infinite city

$320

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Diagram of a city

$320

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The great beauty

$280

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Fish

$200

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Laguna

$890

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Children

$195

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Pennants

$420

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Pennants

$420

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Inside the house

$3,150

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Goldfish

$420

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Waterlilies

$360

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The circus lizard

$320

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My grandfather was a light maker

$2,350

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Virtual model

$390

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Butterfly

$170

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Butterfly

$170

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Circular butterfly

$295

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Doha, the pearl 4

$580

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A journey to Italy, Abriola

$360

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Memory of the coral reef

$1,400

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A journey to Italy, Alba

$360

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Abandoned room with the Mole Antonelliana

$950

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Hermit crabs on the shore

$120

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The first voyage of Christopher Columbus, 1492

$480

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Green pearls

$295

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Siblings

$125

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Kultorvet, Copenaghen

$360

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Windows in Norreport, Copenaghen

$125

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Postcard from Plaza Mayor, Segovia, Spain

$125

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Goldfish

$125

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The cities of the Moon

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Abandoned room number IV

$100

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Stadio dei marmi

$90

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Virtual model

$300

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Constellation number 9

$150

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Stag beetle

$280

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Xin as a child

$315

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Route number 6

$350

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Flock

$280

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Pincushion number 4

$260

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Map

$125

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Sentence number 20

$130

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Anatomy study

$125

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Landscape

$170

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Little landscape

$170

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Virtual model

$350

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Flag number 13

$480

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I love you

$320

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Yellow fish

$295

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Constellation number 5

$350

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Shell

$295

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Lovers

$195

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Construction detail number 2

$240

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Cypher number 2

$295

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Sentence number 2

$130

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Campari

$180

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Abandoned room

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hermit crab on his way back home

$215

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The albino butterfly

$195

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Carnival

$495

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Pottery

$420

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Pottery

$380

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Blue octopus

$350

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Medusa del Bernini

$350

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Anchovies butterfly

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Red flowers

$380

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Landscape with garbage

$1,980

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Caravaggio in Michelangelo mood

$320

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Jellyfish

$250

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Curl butterfly

$280

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Estuary

$890

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Paddies

$890

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Dragon and turtle

$430

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Dragon with fish

$430

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Red smoke

$350

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Fabrizio at the seaside

$165

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The hop moth

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The landfill of Turin

$650

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Civic Center with Matrioska

$2,350

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Matryoshka

$1,990

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memory of Saint Peterburg, Nevskji Prospekt

$460

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memory of Saint Peterburg, the Neva River

$440

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Memory if Istanbul, Leandro Tower

$350

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Memory of Istanbul, Galata

$460

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Portrait

$320

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Constellation number 7

$180

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Withered tree - Agave

$390

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The measurement of space - onisco

$650

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The measurement of space - beetles

$650

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Little map

$125

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Volcano in Los Angeles

$1,850

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Fibonacci moth

$340

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Memory of Turin

$395

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Queen butterfly

$220

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Psychedelic octopus

$395

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The cities of the Moon

$295

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Ink drop

$190

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Apollo alla Galleria degli Uffizi

$350

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Antinoo Farnese

$255

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Diagram

$480

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Diagram

$430

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Sistina mood

$320

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Winter woods

$850

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Imaginary map of Rome

$890

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Ink drop

$125

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Ink drop

$125

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ink drop

$125

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Ink drop

$190

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Ink drop

$190

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ink drop

$230

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Lao, old

$230

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QÃ¬ (Ch'i), air

$230

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Jia, home

$230

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Virtual model

$125

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virtual model

$125

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virtual model

$125

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Memory of Malta

$340

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Memory of Venice

$395

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The green nation

$360

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memory of Venice

$340

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Abandoned room VIII

$75

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Abandoned room VII

$75

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Abandoned room VI

$75

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abandoned room III

$100

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abandoned room II

$75

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abandoned room I

$75

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Tetris number 7

$330

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tetris number 6

$275

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Tetris number 3

$250

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bunsen

$350

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dildos

$495

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green aerofish

$495

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the blind son

$1,100

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the sacrifice

$1,100

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in my toughts

$1,100

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withered tree / interference

$390

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withered tree - big fruits

$320

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withered tree - potatoes

$390

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the red star

$2,350

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star

$495

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orange nation

$360

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circular diagram

$480

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Xin in Michelangelo mood

$320

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Khalid in Michelangelo mood

$320

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landscape with garbage

$230

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tree moth

$125

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14 penguins

$1,750

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circular diagram

$480

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Sistine mood

$320

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geraniums

$225

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The house of the haruspex

$2,500

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triangles with yellow inclusions

$320

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the great beauty

$2,085

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chromosome number 24

$130

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bubbles

$325

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the boy with flowers in the hair

$430

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tattoo

$350

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boston

$270

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imaginary map of new york

$750

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anemone

$150

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tattooed body

$350

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The earth seen from the space

$890

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chromosome number 9

$130

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Bombing Berlin

$280

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virtual model

$325

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berlin - tiergarten - SOLD

$265

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the missing child

$850

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butterfly

$125

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imaginary map of turin

$750

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chameleon

$320

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mexico city

$770

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tattooed body

$350

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lizard

$320

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bunny alien

$270

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something in the snow

$2,100

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constellation n. 6

$180

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tetris n. 4

$330

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Mirror of desires n. 14

$195

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sewed eye

$120

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Tattooed body

$350

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the censor

$1,350

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me and my sister at the sea in 1975

$130

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jellyfish

$160

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united states of america

$1,350

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constellation n. 5

$110

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sewed eye

$80

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deer moth

$140

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