‘War Toys’
The image presents a stylised tank in bright, contrasting colours on a bright pink background. The tank is depicted in a range of primary colours: red, yellow, blue and
green, making it look more like a toy than a war machine. This contrast between the object and the colour choice creates a strong visual statement.
The elements of the tank, such as the barrel, turret and tracks, are drawn with sharp contours and bright colours, making the image eye-catching and almost pop art. The
choice of colours and style could be interpreted as a critique of the militarisation and the normalisation of war, suggesting that war, often presented as a game or a form of entertainment has devastating consequences in reality.
The title ‘War Toys’ reinforces this idea, indicating how war is trivialised and rendered harmless, almost childlike, through media and cultural products. This work could be a
reflection on the need to change the perception of war, making it clear that it is not a game, but something extremely serious and tragic.
In general, the work uses bright colours and eye-catching design to attract attention and provoke critical reflection on war and its representation in modern society.
Born in Italy, graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts of Genova, he has been working in
Europe, Russia, China, Japan. Visual artist and performer since 1978 he operates on different levels of expression ( photography, videos, installations, performances) without losing the essential unity of the poetic gravity on the relationship between “self and other, developed and exposed in its open contradiction between reality and appearance, artifice and nature. He is interested in the metaphor between the “political body “and the “social body” in the ambiguity of contemporary time.
Pierpaolo Koss doesn’t slit his own body as a canvas by Fontana, he doesn’t cut his own flesh to prove immortality through the bright red spurting of the vital stream; he expresses the organic limits by means of action slow-downs and marvellous body motions, which catalyze the gaze of cunning beholders and outline the most diverse maps of reality. Koss has always worked for the creation of shifting identities, undergoing continuous transformations, using the body as a means and not as an end, a battlefield with strong biological limits.
