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Tar Art
Mattia Biagi
Mattia Biagi is an Italian artist whose work causes a vivid and extreme visual impact. Biagi’s vision came from a visit to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. Entranced by the tar bubbling up from the ground, he dipped his shoe in the tar and saw the juxtaposition of ancient and modern life in a moment of epiphany.
Biagi’s TAR Collection transforms the familiar into the surreal. Each object is immersed in a special mixture of tar that he has formulated in his studio.
In order to contain the movement of the odiferous tar, Biagi then uses a specially formulated glaze. The darkness that covers these iconic objects immortalizes and connects to a unique concept of aesthetic beauty.
The TAR Collection began with Biagi’s childhood love of dipping cookies into milk and has grown into the grim 21st century political impact that oil has on our everyday lives. Just as we are doing with our planet we strive to protect, but in fact we destroy.