The mixture is highly unusual and on paper could look like a lethal alchemy: tradition and classicism of form and Michelangelesque bodies revised following the Cartesian method that looks at everything without separating out one in particular, in a"lowbrow"key in which warriors, swimmers, and male nudes are imbued with a fantasy-world,neo-Manga air.
Only Quentin Tarantino could - and did - go so far...
Matteo Pugliese has adopted the path of a renewed Pop Art, original and hypercon-temporary, that dismantles the old dictates on statuary into strongly characterized and newly gestated expressive fragments.