Filippo Cegani, Penitent, 2024

We are pleased to announce FILIPPO CEGANI'S timed release in support of CHOOSE LOVE

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Cegani's most recent series of paintings is a distant observation into post-digital Christian religious iconography.

This series reflects the artist's recent rediscovery of Christianity and Christian iconography. 

The reproducibility and immediacy of the religious icon in the digital era serve as a vehicle and metaphor for the religious figure's loss of value in modern times. They also immediately reference the post-digital Christian aesthetic, in which meme culture merges with classical iconography to reach a wider audience.

 Famous phrases of saints and martyrs are clumsily photoshopped onto classical paintings or portrayals of those figures, reducing both the message and concept. This rapid availability, along with the lack of a larger context for these utterances, converts these philosophical pills into easily digestible social media material.

Cegani reinterprets holy religious cards found in churches and merges them with saint card reinterpretations from the digital world. This gives physical space to an otherwise ethereal message that the digital world contains. As a result, we may concentrate more closely on the messages themselves, allowing us to devote the appropriate amount of time to examining both the meaning of those words and the irony of such depth depicted in media.

The majority may find the juxtaposition of digital and classical humorous or comical. Still, the transnationality of this aesthetic, as well as its success on digital platforms, validates it as a real phenomenon that is transforming our perception of the Christian aesthetic.

The paintings' kitschy overtones and vivid highlights almost contradict with the classical iconography they depict; this glossy and plasticky quality complements the sarcasm underpinning this series of works.

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Choose Love does whatever it takes to provide refugees and displaced people with everything from lifesaving search and rescue boats to food and legal advice. They elevate the voices and visibility of refugees and galvanise public support for agile community organisations providing vital support to refugees along migration routes globally.

Choose Love has provided vital emergency aid and longer-term support to more than 5 million people across the world.

Choose Love is a registered UK Charity. No 1099682 and registered in the USA as a A 501(C)(3) charitable non profit. 

200 Euro provide:

13 hot meals The reality for lots of people living in refugee camps is spending hours in a queue for low-quality food rations or going hungry. With this they are providing a nutritious meal, or fresh produce to cook and share with their loved ones. £15 will typically provide food for a family for 3 days.

6 'Keep A Child safe' kits - Thousands of refugee children arrive, without their parents, in new countries every day. Our partners distribute these parcels containing things like a warm hoodie, writing materials, a toy like a football and a basic mobile phone to make sure that unaccompanied children have what they need, from shelter, clothes and food to education and mental health support.

2 Bundles Of Warmth Contents: blanket and sleeping bag: to stay warm at night. Hot Food: nutritious meals to nourish families and individuals. Heating fuel: to keep people warm in freezing temperatures. Waterproof tent and emergency housing: a place to sleep.

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