Daniele Buetti
"Super Star Come Home"

Daniele Buetti scribbled on the back of photographs of top models taken from the best fashion magazines. These operations are based on both automatic writings as well as childish scribblings similar to those that we make when talking on the telephone. Automatic, direct, simple and daily gestures, through which we subconsciously reveal our aesthetic choices and the trends of our behaviour.

They are all directive drawings to remain in vogue, plastic art beauty and archetypes that finally correspond to no one and which remain a ghost for everyone.  The operations and deformations that the artist makes on the body or fragments of bodies borrowed from glamorous aesthetics cause confusion.  As if  actually part of the skin, the superimposed   drawings create a relief and motifs with a vague identity between ornamentation, ritual tattooing, scarification and aggressive and degrading stains, like a proliferate virus.

It's Beauty and the Beast all in one cliché. Fascination and repulsion. Tattoos that reveal the beauty-cruelty relationship and the growing need at the end of this century to belong to a community.  It's the era of neotribalism.  The artist reminds us that the brands of large firms have become good fellows; their names tattooed ostentatiously on our clothing (Nike, Sony, etc.), accompany us like a second skin as a sign of power and recognition of the different tribes.

Daniele Buetti, born in 1956 in Freiburg, lives and works in Zurich.