THE BOUNTY KILLART (c.2002) Expert Waterloo: Total war, 2013 Plaster print 150 x 40 x 35 cm Plaster 59 x 15 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. Provenance Private collection, Monaco Notes The Bounty Killart is the name of a collective chosen in 2002 at the Albertina Academy in Turin, where its members have been working since 2002: Dionigi Biolatti (Savigliano CN, 1981), Rocco D'Emilio (Turin, 1981), Gualtiero Jacopo Marchioretto (Turin, 1981) and Marco Orazi (Turin, 1979). The group proposes a nihilistic and provocative vision of the iconographic and formal imagery of classical art, the Renaissance and neoclassicism. The Bounty Killart's artistic practice can be identified as a compulsive form of bricolage that blends myth, history and the present, with an erotic passion and a desacralising intention. The group produces engravings, tapestries and, above all, genetically modified sculptures. Historical and artistic quotations play an important role in their work: figures from the past and present mingle with fantastical elements in a brilliant and surreal iconographic dialogue. In recent years, the collective has concentrated on the theme of the object and the construction of disturbing images, grafting foreign iconographic elements onto their subjects, often extracted from their historical context. By reinterpreting images, The Bounty Killart give them back the ability to speak to us, adding new meaning and transforming them into playful objects that give rise to most of our cognitive processes. The Bounty's practice consists of taking history, defined as the chronicles of contemporary popular culture, and importing it into sculptures which, through ready-made classical figures, become a form of representational hyperbole speaking of our common heritage, linking the past to the present.