{"id":508,"date":"2012-05-08T10:44:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T10:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergiozavattieri.com\/wp\/?page_id=508"},"modified":"2012-08-22T10:43:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T10:43:20","slug":"selected-early-works","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sergiozavattieri.com\/eng\/selected-early-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Selected Early Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Last Meal
\n<\/strong>2000-2003<\/h3>\n

The Last Meal<\/em> was conceived and made in Valencia, Spain, during my studies at the Polytechnic University; it marks the passage from my experimental research on the human body to the definition of an aesthetic that instills a doubt on what is real and what is not by creating mock-ups that are as credible and realistic as they are artificial. The animal limbs of which the series is composed (heads, paws and other butchering leftovers I collected from meat stands at the Valencia markets) are treated like archeological finds, or autopsy reports: due to the omission of color, to the hyperdefinition of anatomical features and to the absence of any evidence of previous vital functions, their close-up vision is bearable, as they turn into corpses to be observed and archived in a clinical manner, within a post-mortem process that attests new causes for an otherwise nonessential death and dignifies the unmerciful wickedness of a normalized sacrifice.<\/p>\n

– Sergio Zavattieri<\/p>\n