Maurizio Rapiti - Celestina Cyberpunk

Reinterpretation of La Celestina by Pablo Picasso, a work from the artist's Blue Period (see photo no. 5).
In the original work "The subject is a courtesan, or protectress, blind in one eye, who has become a symbol, for Picasso, of licentious Spain."
In the version made by Rapiti, Celestina regains her sight thanks to a "bionic eye".

"Celestina Cyberpunk" is a unique work by Maurizio Rapiti. The painting is sold framed as seen in the second photo.

Present in the catalog "Maurizio Rapiti works" 2017-2022 (see photos 3-4). A copy of the catalog will be shipped together with the painting to the auction winner.

In recent years several magazines have dedicated articles to Maurizio Rapiti's art (examples in photos 6-7-8).

The work has been exhibited in numerous solo shows, the main ones:

"Radical Visions" - Mupa - Ginosa (TA) 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcaQMCBGaXQ

"Put a Piercing in the Baroque" - Rosy Boa - Arezzo 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmE0KeJJ9Bg

"Maurizio Rapiti" - The Reflex Gallery - Valdichiana Village (AR) 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH11s_Cpdwg

"Dialogus Temporum" - Spazio Espositivo Palazzo del Podestà - Città di Castello (PG) 2026
https://www.ttv.it/cultura/maurizio-rapiti-il-respiro-del-presente-che-attraversa-i-grandi-classici-dellarte/

Biography:
Born in Sansepolcro in 1985, Maurizio Rapiti took his first steps in the art world in his father’s studio, a skilled copyist, collaborating with him on the creation of so-called “falsi d’autore” (forgeries of authors).
This training would lay the groundwork for a gradually more personal path, focused on experimentation and the mixing of techniques but always with a look toward figurative art.
Since 2017 Rapiti has returned to devoting himself to past masterpieces, but this time filtered through the lens of a maturity capable of using them as instruments to display his own personality.
Formal care and the pursuit of aesthetic pleasure thus remain the basis of works that at first glance seem to mock the sacred monsters of classical painting, but on closer inspection reveal a critique, flavored with irony, of our times.

Rapiti has recently collaborated with the Milan-Coto Winter Olympics (Milano Cortina), creating a work whose photo and the video of its realization were shared on the official Olympic social pages (@Olympics)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVE60Iqgn9J/

Over the years Rapiti has also had the opportunity to collaborate with institutions; on two occasions he designed the posters for Confindustria Cisambiente events and in 2021 he created the image for the international Dante conference “A Great Excluded Among the Excluded.”

The artist has been involved for several years in poster art, posting prints of his works on the metal mailbox boxes on the streets (see the last 3 photos).

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