What are the details of a face that allow us to recognize the identity of a portrait?
To evoke the iconic Mona Lisa, César Malfi chose her gaze, rather than her famous smile. Playing with the expectations of this iconic portrait, the urban artist offers a new reading by substituting the impersonal pout derived from the figures of Fernand Léger.
To the subtlety of Vinci's modeling, he contrasts the black and raw graphics of the modern painter. To the quest for reality of the master of the Renaissance, he confronts the "new realism" of the cubist artist.
Practicing rupture to the point of fragmentation, César Malfi also operates a continuity in the art of citing the classics.
By merging them with the modern ones, he creates a syncretic and singular portrait, more truthful?