‘Casa La Tigre’ is the newest instalment by The Cool Hunter’s favorite digital artist Massimo Colonna. On this latest work, a continuation on the theme of that penultimate image of wealth and standing, the luxurious pool, Colonna has created an Escher-esque tropical fantasy replete with stairs ascending and descending to all over the place, and nowhere.
With dappled golden late afternoon gentle illuminating a scene of dense jungle foliage framing a concrete architectural folly, Colonna fabricates a world which exists solely within the motion pictures; a Bond villain’s modernist lair theatrically hid in a thick verdant setting. At its focus the picture has that the majority alluring of massive cats, the tiger, serenely gazing again at us, patiently awaiting for the following drama to start. But within the tiger we take refuge, our eyes drawn to it by the straight strains of the unreal parts. In a picture crowded with various components and infinite complexity, the tiger’s tranquil pose, coupled with the pool’s gently rippled floor, present a way of peace.
