The Immortality of Death

Alessandro Siviglia painted in 2018 the head of the Medusa on an interior awning, commissioned by a collector from Naples.

The artist from Salerno refers to “the shield with the head of Medusa” by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.

He interprets the work of Caravaggio in a personal modern way, with his unique style, imagination and creativity.

The particular technique of using color, acrylic with a “touch of oil” to give brilliance to the details that the artist wants to highlight (a very personal mixed technique), distinguishes his inimitable style and makes his work a unique painting of high prestige and artistic significance.

The face of Medusa is captured by the artist in the moment of the terrified scream filled with pain and fright, reflected in this crazy gaze, with the asymmetrical eyes, wide and hallucinated, in the open mouth that cries out in addition to the terror and pain the surprise of being killed.

The green hair, which is actually a tangle of snakes that, thanks to skilful strokes of light and color, are moving alive and madly. They are the frame of Medusas Medusa and occupy a large part of the pictorial scene.

The splatter of bright red blood that flow from the neck of the severed head, make the hypnotic, terrible and still vivid Medusa, capable, even at the gates of death, to petrify anyone who looks at her.

The black pupil that stands out in the whites of the eyes, the black mouth wide open with the red upper lip, with the white teeth clearly visible and protruding from the red lower lip, highlight the contrast of the light in its different flares even more.

The stylized and elongated nose divides the eyes and eyebrows up to the slightly wrinkled forehead.

The sword, sharp and piercing, is a perennial symbol of lament over near and inexorable death, of destruction of individuality and life.

Medusa’s head breaks out from a shield that looks like a sun, and Medusa seems to wonder if in death she will acquire the immortality that she did not have in life.

The distinctive element is the Crown, a symbol of the absoluteness of the work, a three-pointed mark, of which each tip defines the singularity, inequality, the uniqueness of the idea of ​​realization transfused with creativity in the realization itself.

The crown with the eye of Medusa in the center and the S, the initial of Seville, seal the authenticity of the work of art, the eternity of time that has no beginning or end in the work of art.
The work was carried out in Naples on commission in 2018. It is possible to purchase the works of the artist Alessandro Siviglia not only from Salerno, but also from Naples and from all over Italy and from abroad.
Works of large and small size are performed. The subject of the work is also chosen by the client.

Ilaria Rossi