Scarface, come on!

Angelo Accardi's artistic research is characterized by the complex use of symbolic quotations. His works disorientate. When we find ourselves in front of one of his paintings, many questions arise in our minds. “Scarface, Come on” is an enigmatic painting that pushes us to reflect. What are ostriches and chickens doing inside a room set up with works that have made the history of art? What is the relationship between birds and works of art? “Scarface, Come on” seems to capture the image of a dystopian future where humans have become extinct. Beings from a fantasy world remain on the planet together with ostriches and chickens. Birds that in the collective imagination represent foolishness. The birds that cannot fly are our worthy substitutes on earth. They wander among the works with the same lost gaze of human beings now numbed by our society. The non-birds wander around the room which displays the statue of the "Venus of Willendorf" and the painting "Portrait of Mr and Mrs Arnolfini" by Jan Van Eyck. Furthermore, the artist also includes numerous icons of Pop culture in the canvas: from Homer Simpson to Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield from Pulp Fiction, up to the comics version of Scarface. The gangster with the cigar in his mouth brandishes a machine gun and looks at us with a menacing look. The Pulp Fiction character, played by John Travolta, is sitting on a sofa waiting, but waiting for what, mankind? The work, therefore, is a compendium of images that retrace the history of culture, from the Paleolithic to our contemporaneity. From the history of art to the history of cinema. Images that have shaped our imagination. There are no exhaustive answers to answer the numerous questions that this extraordinary painting asks us. Art, philosophy, history and sociology are intertwined in the work of Angelo Accardi. Asking yourself questions is already a good starting point. The goal is to move the gears of our gray cells, which have been dormant for a long time. Accardi creates a meta-painting of unusual power, continuing the path of the great protagonists of art history.