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Zeno Pillan

Oil paintings S

Handpaint Oil on canvas or canvas panel (300x400mm).

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Sports club hydromassage pool

This painting has a construction grid, like the ten of a card; each subject fills one of the spots. It is inspired by a sacred medieval painting; one of the many with a flat blue background, geometric stars, and symbolic beings aligned in the foreground, such as an eagle-winged child’s face, an elderly person’s face, or apple-eating lizards. I actually took a long time to find the right subject for this inspiration because nothing felt contemporary enough.

55€

Vietato rullare

Is there an English term for “rullare”? This term defines when someone plays foosball and makes the rods spin continuously. This is a brainless move that has a powerful but random chance of scoring a point. But since it totally waste the spirit and the enjoiablity of the game, it is forbidden.

50€

In bocca a mamma lupa

In Italian it is the equivalent of “Break a leg”. In times when internet wasn’t so much enstablished someone give me another interpretation that I liked most. They told me that this way of saying implies fate holding you like mother wolf does with her babies. So the right answer was a simple “thanks” instead of the most common “die the wolf” most people answer. As I told at that time you generally needed a lan cable to access internet and, since I liked this interpretation the most, I made mine. Today, to write that, I checked online, and instead of the responses I wanted, Wikipedia told me that this way of saying is actually a dead metaphor totally similar to “break a leg” But I don’t care honestly and I will keep responding “thanks”.

40€

Self portrait (aka Calm Outside)

Painted on the 18th of January 2025. Is this idea of me similar to how I actually look? It is both similar and not similar. It is not similar because it is only a partial view. However, I recognize the one in this portrait as “me.”

45€

Screaming inside.

It is strange how much It has been a rage painting. It expresses some of the internal distresses I am living at the moment. Since I had only one canvas panel (and I needed two for the two paintings) I decided to paint over one I was not satisfied with (and I saw nobody opened or liked it on Etsy). I also discovered that the “spatola” (this is the name in Italian for the tool) is called “knife” in English. Also, to paint it, now, I moved away from the easel an incomplete painting that had been waiting to be finished for months. There is a good omen light at the end of this work. I immediately started writing this description when the paint was over (I am now still in the studio in front of it) and when I tried to write the title “screaming inside” a typo (and maybe the auto corrector) decided to write “Dreaming inside” instead.

60€

Gradient AO

Sold.

Gradient YA

20€

Mammal

Most mammals are killed before their first birthday by humans to make meat.

30€

Rock in Idro

NOFX playing at sunset.

Edited.

Pink

Pink, or green. As you like.

30€

Epilazione Pirica

40€

Tiny tiles

40€

Tuffatori

Pool Divers.

35€

Stagione Melone

45€

Helios in the mist

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Mermen

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Tabi sul pavé

The iconic Margiela’s Tabi shoes on the typical stone blocks streets of Milan.

45€

The Archer

For those who ask themselves about the unnatural color of the grass, the answer is easy: I wanted to emphasize that sport is the main subject of the artwork rather than the location.

40€

Tigre contro Tigre

The name is an Italian tongue-twister that means: <tiger versus tiger>. None of them is an actual tiger, but I loved the tongue-twister idea because this artwork can be a tile for a repeat pattern.

Sold.

Standing Bear

The standing bear is back.

Sold.

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