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DRAKE

Private Collection / California

Detail: Natural lime. Acrylic on raw fiber.
Mid-1900s frame, original “Lanzani” painting on copper foil on the back
Year: 2022
Size: 41cm H x 51cm L x 4,5cm P
made in Italy

In the summer of 2022 Modena was the set of the film Hollywood about the life of Enzo Ferrari, directed by Michael Mann. With Penelope Cruz, Adam Driver, Patrick Dempsey and Shailene Woodley.
A feature film dedicated to the myth of Maranello’s car, Ferrari: the dream of millions of lovers of four wheels scattered around the world.
Many are the most emblematic quotes of Enzo Ferrari. A man, the “Drake”, that in the course of its existence has had the maximum satisfactions from the job and from that its splendid invention, but that it has had to fight in order to overcome so many dramas and personal misfortunes. “What’s behind you doesn’t matter”. With this work the sense of one of the most famous and representative phrases of the Drake is overturned, focusing attention on how much “behind” there is hidden the most bewitching surprise: preserving on the back the original canvas of the mid ‘800, The painting finds its proper place in the artistic project, and provocative, of Mitch. Today, the painting is a reminder of the filming in Modena for one of the protagonists of the Hollywood cast, becoming part of their private collection.

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