Mechanical idol

Mediums: oil, cardboard.
Location: The National Gallery of Modern Art (Rome, Italy).

The central painting from a series of works with the same name, fully expressing the aesthetics and ideals of the second wave of Futurism in Italy. In the middle of the bright geometric composition, there is a mechanism that resembles at the same time a part of some industrial boiler and the head of a human-robot. In this picture, Phillia paid tribute to the century of machines and mechanisms in which technological progress crossed out all past ideals and cultural values. The new industrial world blurs the line between a living person and a machine, putting a soulless mechanism above human emotions and the pursuit of beauty.