I Mutanti is the catalogue of the exhibition of the same name held at The French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici. The five featured conceptual artists, or "mutants", are prophets whose work provides a visionary perspective into a world that we do not yet know, where identity is indefinite. This edition of the catalogue features the work of DjamelTatah. The subject omnipresent in DjamelTatah's works is the silent figure - the mirror of all humankind, pain, solitude, melancholy, war and peace. Featured isolated, in pairs or in repetition across large canvases or polyptychs, the silhouettes are consistently depicted in a 1:1 scale. They seldom face the viewer directly, instead they are found gazing upwards, downwards or far into the distance. The works have no title, bringing to the fore issues of identity.
I Mutanti is the catalogue of the exhibition of the same name held at The French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici. The five featured conceptual artists, or "mutants", are prophets whose work provides a visionary perspective into a world that we do not yet know, where identity is indefinite. This edition of the catalogue features the work of DjamelTatah. The subject omnipresent in DjamelTatah's works is the silent figure - the mirror of all humankind, pain, solitude, melancholy, war and peace. Featured isolated, in pairs or in repetition across large canvases or polyptychs, the silhouettes are consistently depicted in a 1:1 scale. They seldom face the viewer directly, instead they are found gazing upwards, downwards or far into the distance. The works have no title, bringing to the fore issues of identity.