Andrea Topa - ICem Mouse

Andrea Topa - I-cem Mouse
Mixed media - Signed on the back - 2024
I-cem Mouse by Andrea Topa.
The work was created using iPhone smartphone displays cast in cement, and finally screwed onto a 2.5 mm plexiglass panel in a smoky color.
On the display a classic scene from animated short films of the early era of film, signed by Walt Disney, is depicted.
The technique used to represent Mickey Mouse involved several stencils.

29x21 cm
The work includes a slim white frame that is easily replaceable.

The artist's signature is visible on the back of the work.
The work is accompanied by its certificate of authenticity, issued by the artist at the time of sale.
At the time of purchase, the work will be adequately protected during transport or handling, using appropriate packaging. The first step will be to wrap the work with wrapping paper or tissue paper to avoid direct contact with the protective material, which could damage the surface. Next, use bubble wrap with the bubbles facing outward to prevent leaving a mark, and finally place the work in a sturdy cardboard box or plywood crate, filling empty spaces with packing material to prevent movement.
Andrea Enedra Topa - 1985, Scilla (RC), Italy, earned a high school diploma in artistic studies at the M. Preti Art High School in Reggio Calabria. The artist, Andrea Topa, centers most of his artistic research on the most important urban cultures, such as contemporary neocolonial culture, which has influenced various artists, critics, gallerists, and buyers in the art world with ideas and iconographic or moral content entirely different from European ones. People can be conditioned by many educational models through images and sounds or other things that are not part of the culture of their civil place of belonging, but derived from other civilizations. The artist, Andrea Topa's, provocative works must be placed within the historical currents that formed during the height of the Cold War—the Dadaists, the Duchampians, Yunk Art, and finally Pop Art. For many of my works smartphone displays, iPhones, and other materials have been placed side by side on a large panel. The works convey fairly strong messages to the observer, related to the various social and economic problems of humanity, in which short episodes, ideal and absurd, or events of history are told in a fantastical, comic-book black-and-white style or otherwise.