The young atheletic man as Susanna and the elders. Pop Art parody of Tintoretto. Marco Silombria.

The young man and two old men. Pop Art parody of Tintoretto.

Marco Silombria.

1980s

H cm 46 x L cm 62

The young man and two old men. Pop Art parody of Tintoretto. Marco Silombria. 1980s
The young man and two old men. Pop Art parody of Tintoretto's painting.
1980s.
Marco Silombria, Italian advertising graphic designer, artist and ceramist.
Pencils and waxes on paper.
Signed lower left: Silombria.
With archive stamp, numbered n.77, dated 1-1983.
From the series "D'apres":
Silombria creates a series of parodies of paintings from the late Renaissance to the 19th century that in his time were found "scandalous" for depicting nudity explicitly. Reusing iconic images, well known by a wide audience, artist uses irony, as is typical for many Pop Art artists.
Silombria uses the image of a classic ideal of the male body, strong and muscular.
In our painting Silombria reinterprets Tintoretto's painting "Susanna and Vecchioni", representing the toilet of a young man, who the two old men observe lasciviously.

Notes on the artist:
A student of Emilio Scanavino, Silombria was one of the most innovative Italian advertisers. He worked for Fiat, Sai and for Riso Gallo for which he designed the historic brand.
Appreciated and esteemed painter and advertising graphic designer, who established himself in Turin starting from the end of the 1960s.

Having arrived in Turin in the 1950s, after having taken his first steps with famous artists such as Emilio Scavanino and Lucio Fontana, in that temple of ceramic art that is Albisola, Silombria had completed a long apprenticeship at the Sanguineti advertising agency, making himself noticed by Armando Testa. Subsequently he was one of the founders of the CGSS agency together with other important advertisers such as Silvio Saffirio, Gagliardi and Giorgio Caponetti.

He signed several successful advertising campaigns: from the one for Gallo rice to the Fiat 127, to the posters for the Textile Financial Group. homoerotic, between the new Dadaism and pop art, between Matisse and Piero Manzoni, always in the wake of the "joie de vivre" and through reinterpretations of the Dionysian and Olympic themes of classical art