EVERYBODY'S CHRIST
'Il Cristo di tutti' ('Everybody's Christ') includes works inspired by the Passion of Christ and the Crucifixion, created by Mario Lupo from 1986 to 1988 with mixed media on straw-paper (maximum size 54x38 cm). They were published in the volume 'Il Cristo di tutti', accompanied by eleven poems by David Maria Turoldo and writings by Carlo Bo, Italo Mancini and Valerio Volpini.
The same theme recurs in two large mixed-media paintings on Olona cotton canvas in 1988.
I've been drawing a Christ on the cross for a while now. I don't know how the idea came to me, it was spontaneous. One day, while I was alone, I started to draw a hand, it felt as if it was suffering and that's what gave me the idea to extend the hand, to draw the arm and that's how my first Crucifixion came to be, and I immediately felt strong emotions. Then I felt the need to do another, and then another, and another... I started to draw all these figures of Christ, on cheap paper, straw paper that made the suffering even more significant, and expresses Christ on the cross.
(Mario Lupo - "Story of life, story of painting”)
EVERYBODY'S CHRIST
'Il Cristo di tutti' ('Everybody's Christ') includes works inspired by the Passion of Christ and the Crucifixion, created by Mario Lupo from 1986 to 1988 with mixed media on straw-paper (maximum size 54x38 cm). They were published in the volume 'Il Cristo di tutti', accompanied by eleven poems by David Maria Turoldo and writings by Carlo Bo, Italo Mancini and Valerio Volpini.
The same theme recurs in two large mixed-media paintings on Olona cotton canvas in 1988.
I've been drawing a Christ on the cross for a while now. I don't know how the idea came to me, it was spontaneous. One day, while I was alone, I started to draw a hand, it felt as if it was suffering and that's what gave me the idea to extend the hand, to draw the arm and that's how my first Crucifixion came to be, and I immediately felt strong emotions. Then I felt the need to do another, and then another, and another... I started to draw all these figures of Christ, on cheap paper, straw paper that made the suffering even more significant, and expresses Christ on the cross.
(Mario Lupo - "Story of life, story of painting”)