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Raffaella Pavan was born in Treviso (Italy), after a career as a male fashion designer, he moved to Southeast Asia, where he lived for 8 years between Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. He arrived in Barcelona 11 years ago where he learned and fell in love with this type of altarpiece art.
His works are not monothematic because his life trajectory has inspired him in other modalities and thus transmit in what he does. Thanks to this technique and the love for this missing art, I wanted to convey the work, in a modern key, following the same procedure of the past. The term altarpiece in Castilian has Latin etymology, from a locution re (tro) tabulum altaris (dorsal table of the altar). In the Middle Ages, and throughout the 400s, wooden boards were used as support, flanked by joints and framed. The wood was then covered with a canvas fixed with rabbit tail that its function is to cushion the movements of the wood with the upper layers called "gesso" which consists of a mixture made of rabbit tail and white from Spain, this makes it possible a perfectly smooth and polished surface. This technique is perfect for gilding, made with gold leaf, and for egg tempera painting. With the discovery of oil painting in the fifteenth century, perhaps by the Flemish school, this type of art ended up completely replacing it. Another difference with the middle ages was the disappearance of the so-called gold funds preferring landscape elements |
| English speaker: | Si |
| Participation Date: | 27 September 2019 |