Leonardo Pierro Art | Sweet Decadence Exhibition

Sweet Decadence Exhibition

Sweet Decadence
by Leonardo Pierro

Leonardo Pierro's recent production metaphorically compares eating disorders with the plethora of images that are engulfed through the means of mass communication. Food and greed for images combined with knowledge are nourishment of the Ego, similar to those imposed by the need for esteem and recognition, authentic existential motivational levers. The works follow a path similar to the advertising code. The dichotomy between consumer products and aesthetic models is accompanied by critical reflections on eating habits. Sensory input is continually annihilated, persuasions enabled by prophetic bites and / or benefits hide systems of industrialized production of edible genera. The repulsion and idiosyncrasy generated are feelings of guilt from which it is difficult to heal. Rehabilitation assistance is non-existent. In this combinatorial effort, made possible by the demands of life, poised between decadence and vanitas, we sublimate new cultural models to damage time, the only testimony of human ambition.