布鲁克林艺术家托尼•托斯卡尼(Tony Toscani)在充满焦虑和疲惫的作品中描绘抽象的人物。
托斯卡尼的角色都是肿胀的——他们的四肢膨胀，看上去几乎是浮起的。与他们庞大的身躯相比，他们的头显得微不足道，他们的眼睛低垂着，也不愿与观众接触。这些日常生活的写照充满了千禧一代的慵懒:生活节奏太快，我们应该如此紧密相连，如此进化，如此进步——相反，我们比以往任何时候都更孤独、更疲惫。在托斯卡尼的画作中，人物似乎是匍匐着的，一边喝咖啡一边沉思，或者在Instagram上无限地滚动。在最近的一次采访中，他谈到了自己对这种疲倦的痴迷。的确，他的作品给人一种奇怪的熟悉感，尽管抽象人物的比例有些奇怪;这是一项关于一代人的研究，他们厌倦了这个世界的节奏，而这个世界继续为他们提供机会。
Brooklyn-based artist Tony Toscani paints abstract figures in works thick with feelings of anxiety and exhaustion.
Toscani’s characters are swollen—their limbs are inflated, appearing almost buoyant. Their heads seem minuscule in comparison to their mammoth bodies, their eyes downcast and averted—never making contact with the audience. These portraits of everyday life are imbued with a millennial lethargy: Life has moved too quickly, we should be so connected, so evolved, so advanced—instead, we’re lonelier and more tired than ever before. In Toscani’s paintings, characters appear prostrate, languishing their lives away in contemplation over coffee, or infinitely scrolling on Instagram. In a recent interview, he commented on his fascination with this weariness, there is, he remarked, “a beauty to our languor, it is an emotion that makes us uniquely human.” Indeed, his work feels strangely familiar despite the odd proportions of his abstract characters; it is a study of a generation fatigued by the pace of their world, and the opportunities it continues to offer them.
Author: © Tony Toscani
Photography: Tony Toscani