DOVIS CERAMICS - DRAWINGS - SCULPTURES
GIUSEPPE DOVIS
ITALIAN AMERICAN ARTIST ( 1943 ) His education and career as an artist started in his early years in Italy : 1950 - 1959 SCUOLA D’ARTE CERAMICA and LICEO ARTISTICO, ACCADEMIA ALBERTINA DI BELLE ARTI In Torino Italy. For several years he lived in South America where he continued his artistic education with added experience in oil painting and sculpture. He graduated in Argentina with a professor degree in fine arts from the ACADEMIA ARGENTINA DE BELLAS ARTES. From 1968 to 1971 he traveled extensively exhibiting his art work in all major cities in South, Central, North America and in Italy. In 1971 he became a US resident after taking a graduate course in fine arts at the prestigious CORCORAN SCHOOL OF ART In Washington DC. All DOVIS ART is registered and copyrighted. |
ABOUT MY CREATIVE PROCESS
The human form represented in different stages of abstraction is what motivates my creative energy. Such creative power comes to the surface, shakes my body, and nurtures me. Discarded objects such as old bricks, wood blocks, and other materials bring inspiration to my art work. One hundred year old bricks, corroded by time, weathered by the corrosion of sea salt from the Eastern Shore dump sites, find their way to my studio work shop. I labor patiently to realize the perfect poetic match to the abstracted human forms that I create from local clays and the found objects. The action of each sculpture is synthesized, muted, naked, unrestrained by social conventions, asking to be silently observed, appearing as individuals in a dream-like surrealistic landscape. The unpolished rough surfaces attempt to dissolve into the surrounding space; still they are elevated on their own pedestals as miniature statues, unashamed, facing us, demanding a reality for their own existence, patiently observing the passage of time.
The human form represented in different stages of abstraction is what motivates my creative energy. Such creative power comes to the surface, shakes my body, and nurtures me. Discarded objects such as old bricks, wood blocks, and other materials bring inspiration to my art work. One hundred year old bricks, corroded by time, weathered by the corrosion of sea salt from the Eastern Shore dump sites, find their way to my studio work shop. I labor patiently to realize the perfect poetic match to the abstracted human forms that I create from local clays and the found objects. The action of each sculpture is synthesized, muted, naked, unrestrained by social conventions, asking to be silently observed, appearing as individuals in a dream-like surrealistic landscape. The unpolished rough surfaces attempt to dissolve into the surrounding space; still they are elevated on their own pedestals as miniature statues, unashamed, facing us, demanding a reality for their own existence, patiently observing the passage of time.