Dario Moschetta - Head 31B – No reserve - Mixed Media Original Painting, 70×70cm | Dario Moschetta | Signed &

HEAD 31B (2023)
Dario Moschetta, Italia
Mixed media on canvas: 70 × 70 cm
Signed on the front and back.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
Unframed but ready to hang.

A rare opportunity — this work is offered with no reserve price. Moschetta almost never auctions his paintings without a reserve. This is your chance to acquire an original at the price the market decides.

Technique:
Mixed media: acrylic paint, chemical transfer of printing elements, spray paint, stencil, glue on canvas.

About the work
Head 31B is part of an ongoing series exploring the intersection of classical portraiture and contemporary urban language. The profile — reminiscent of Renaissance medal coins and antique sculpture — is deconstructed and rebuilt through layers of acrylic paint, spray paint, stencil work, chemical transfer of printed elements, and glue. The result is a surface alive with tension between order and accident, between the timeless and the ephemeral.
The black ground anchors the figure while the warm bursts of gold, amber, and red push the form forward. The chemical transfer process introduces fragments of the printed world — text, pattern, graphic residue — that embed themselves into the painted surface like memory traces. The work is simultaneously archaeological and immediate.

About the artist
Dario Moschetta (b. 1973, Padova, Italy) has exhibited internationally at Art Rooms London (2017, 2018), The Other Art Fair by Saatchi Art London (2019, 2020), and Red Dot Miami (2017). His work has been featured in The Guardian, Il Sole 24 Ore, and Juxtapoz. Collectors include private buyers worldwide, and institutional placements include the Hotel de Crillon (Paris) and Unipol Group offices. He has been published three times in Saatchi Art physical catalogs and collaborated with publishers in Milan and Miami alongside artists such as Shepard Fairey.