Vanni Cuoghi - new works

We have just published three new works by Vanni Cuoghi that belong to the " Remedies "series.  These are boxes of empty medicines inside which Cuoghi inserts watercoloured and carved papers. In these cards Cuoghi represents dragons and a medieval warrior who confronts him in a duel to kill him and obtain blood from him. In ancient times, engraving the bark of some trees, a live red resin was obtained that in the Middle Ages the popular belief identified with the blood of dragons, imaginative animals that dominated ancient legends, and the belief was supported by the fact that the "dragon blood" came from some distant islands located in the Indian Ocean. Dragon blood was used since the second century A.C. in medicine to treat several illnesses and especially wounds. Later it was also used to varnish furniture especially violins. Today the use has been replaced by synthetic products that are cheap. So Cuoghi in these representations only plays on the misunderstanding that dragon blood, also used in medicine as mentioned, was really derived from the killing of the dragon and not from the trees.

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Vanni Cuoghi's works in the gallery are available for direct viewing

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