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Rico Solinas

Rico Solinas’ ongoing project to capture all the art museums in the world in this unique format of painting on saws is, to date, a 15 year project. Painting on saws is an American folk art tradition which Solinas has taken up with humor and irony. The buildings are distorted to fit the configuration of the saw, transforming the hard lines of the architecture into softer more organic forms with subtle hints of surrealism. Some are painted in plein-air, while others are painted from photographs; all are painted outdoors and subject to the elements. The wind blows dirt and debris onto the surface which becomes part of the composition on the found object.

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Rico Solinas
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, 1998
Oil on metal, 7” x 29”

Rico Solinas
Stadel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany, 2012
Oil on metal, 8” x 30”

Rico Solinas
Louvre, Paris, 1999
Oil on metal, 7” x 30”

Rico Solinas
Mauritshuis Museum, The Hague, Holland, 1999
Oil on metal, 7” x 29”

Rico Solinas
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 2009
Oil on metal, 7” x 29”

Rico Solinas
Soumaya Museum, Mexico City, Mexico, 2012
Oil on metal, 6” x 25”

Rico Solinas
Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Holland, 2011
Oil on metal, 8” x 32”

Rico Solinas
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland, 2006
Oil on metal, 6” x 30”

Rico Solinas
Moderna Museet, Malmo, Sweden, 2011
Oil on metal, 5” x 24”

Rico Solinas
SFMOMA, San Francisco, 1998
Oil on metal, 7” x 30”

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