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Game Art: Nicola Traversoni's game-inspired paintings

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Nicola Traversoni, Loveline, 2012, Mixed technique, 70 x 50 cm
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Nicola Traversoni, Motel, 2012, Mixed technique, 70 x 50 cm
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Nicola Traversoni, Memory, 2012, Mixed technique, 70 x 50 cm
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Nicola Traversoni, Tsunami, 2012, Mixed technique, 70 x 50 cm
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Nicola Traversoni, Old People Home, 2012, Mixed technique, 70 x 50 cmNicola Traversoni, born in Piacenza, Italy, in 1981In his paintings, Italian artist Nicola TRaversoni examines contemporary spaces by using archaic/arcade videogame aesthetics. Motels, retirements homes, apartments, hospitals: Traversoni remediates the look of 8-bit games - Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt among others - to re-built his memories. Traversoni's paintings are simultaneously ironic and tragic. In these canvases, his present, past, and future collide: childhood is rebooted through a game-like filter.LINK: Nicola TraversoniSubmitted by Matteo Bittanti

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