INTRUDERS is a Bow-ties series made by Pvc and Paper, reproducing 30 Art masterpiece of all time:
the artworks selection in the background of every creation goes from ancients frescos of I century BC to early XX century paintings.
The aim is to renew the meaning of the images, creating a fresh new interaction between them and the small characters who are intruding their space.
The result is an hilarious combination of ancient and modern, in which, this time-travel experiment, tries to revolutionise and updating the original contest of the masterpiece.
Intruders is a graphic folding paper project inspired by famous Art masterpiece, made in 2016 by the Italian artist Tanio Liotta (25 yo from Milan), already famous for his bow-ties, homage to his childhood spent in his grandfather’s tailor shop. He uses them as a canvas, building their shape with different techniques and materials, working on this symbol in order to make small installations in which recreate imaginary worlds taken out from everyday stories, ancient memories and life emotions.

BUILDING (the) “Ideal City”, (attributed to) Luciano Laurana or Melozzo da Forlì, c. 1480-1484

BUILDING (the) “Ideal City”, (attributed to) Fra Carnevale, c. 1470-1480

WHISTLING (the) “Arrival of the Normandy Train”, Gare Saint-Lazare Claude Monet, 1877

CHERISHING (the) “View of Pirna from the Sonnenstein Castle”, Bernardo Bellotto, c. 1750

MILKING (in) “Wivenhoe Park Essex”, John Constable, 1816

FLASHDANCING “The Dance Class”, Edgar Degas, 1880

FOOLING (the) “Floor Scrapers”, Gustave Caillebotte, 1876

EXPLORING (the) “Ship on Stormy Seas”, Ivan Konstantinovic Ajvazovskij, 1858

SUMMERING (in) “Deauville”, Conrad Wise Chapman, 1876

ENJOYING “Skating in the Bois de Boulogne”, Conrad Wise Chapman, 1876

FACING “Winter in the Woods Nordstrand”, Edvard Munch, 1899

CLIMBING “Loue Valley near Mouthier-Haute-Pierre”, Gustave Courbet, c. 1865-1868

TOILING (in) “M. Musy’s Mansion”, Louveciennes, Camille Pisarro, 1872

DELIVERING (at) “Entrance to an Inn in the Praestegarden at Hillested”, Martinus Rørbye, 1844

JOYING “The Harvesters”, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565

DISCOVERING “Naples: Wiew of Riviera di Chiaia”, Gaspar Van Wittel, 1736

MOANING “A Burial at Ornans”, Gustave Courbet, 1849

SUPPORTING “The Fourth Estate”, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, 1901

GETTING (the) “Wind Fallen Trees”, Ivan Shiskin, 1888

RAZING (a) “Pine Forest”, Ivan Shiskin, 1890

HARVESTING “The Red Vineyards near Arles”, Vincent Van Gogh, 1888

GOLFING (al) “Fresco”, House of the golden Bracelet (Pompei, Oecus), I century BC

SWIMMING (in) “Venice: The Grand Canal with S.Simeone Piccolo, Giovanni”, Antonio Canaletto, c. 1740

GLIDING (the) “Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap”, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565

SURPASSING (the) “Hunters in the Snow”, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565

MAKING (the) “Kitchen scene”, Joachim Beuckelaer, c. 1560-1565

SHOOTING “The Hunt in the Forest”, Paolo Uccello, c. 1470

PARTYING (at) “The Garden of Earthly Delights” (section from centre panel), Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1480-1490

PHOTOGRAPHING (the) “Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx”, Joachim Patinir, 1515–1524

CHALLENGING “The Diver”, Tomb of Diver (Paestum Necropolis), c. 480 BC
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