“‘Don’t get too political’ sometimes they say, but in reality every work of art, be it a movie, a written story or a print, has some message in itself,” says EneArtworks, a Milan-based linocut printmaker. EneArtworks is Enea Seregni, whose artistic production usually consists of fanarts and works inspired by horror and macabre symbology. However, in their latest print, Madame Guillotine, Enea gives life to a new project with the intention of combining their linocut style and subjects with a strong socio-political message.
Since they were a child, Enea has always been fascinated by the study of history, in particular events such as revolutions and uprisings. “When I was a baby my father made me fall asleep singing the Marseillaise to me and perhaps it is no coincidence that my middle school exam was about the French Revolution of 1789,” states the printmaker. Enea continues; “From the storming of the Bastille to the siege of the Winter Palace in 1917, there’s always been something attractive, tragic and liberating in the processes that see people struggling to regain their place in history.”
Clearly, “revolutions are not a dinner party”, and the methods by which they are carried out are not always peaceful. Hence the guillotine: a powerful symbol of justice, revenge, and terror. Enea tells us; “Madame Guillotine is intended as a tribute to that historical period where the first spark was ignited, bringing a great change to the world, with a message that is still valid even in these times where inequalities don’t seem to decrease even in the ‘civilised’ side of the world.”
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