{"product_id":"disorder","title":"Disorder","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Disorder, Demetrio Di Grado brings together fragments from vintage Italian magazines to construct a scene that oscillates between innocence and instability. A child figure, poised atop a toy horse, holds a book close to the body, an image that evokes learning, discipline, and early social formation. Yet the composition resists coherence. Layers slip, overlap, and interrupt one another, dissolving any sense of fixed order.\u003cbr\u003e\nCreated through a fully analogue collage process, the work preserves the physical traces of cutting, tearing, and reassembly. Paper edges remain visible, and the original printed textures carry the cultural weight of their time. Floral motifs, graphic patterns, and symbolic objects coexist without hierarchy, forming a structure that feels provisional and unsettled.\u003cbr\u003e\nRather than illustrating disorder as chaos, Di Grado treats it as a condition embedded within systems of education, identity, and growth. The child’s figure appears suspended between control and play, instruction and imagination. Meaning emerges through tension rather than resolution, as fragility and structure coexist in a delicate balance.\u003cbr\u003e\nBy reactivating archival imagery within a contemporary framework, Disorders reflects on how inherited models of behavior and knowledge persist, fracture, and reconfigure themselves over time. The past is not presented as stable memory, but as a material constantly reshaped by the present.                                  Demetrio Di Grado is an Italian contemporary artist whose practice evolved from hip-hop and street culture into a refined language of analogue collage. Since 2016, he works with images sourced from 1930s–1950s magazines, reconstructing the past through poetic, emotionally charged compositions centered on the human figure. With over twenty years of practice and exhibitions, Di Grado is regarded as a leading figure in Sicilian contemporary art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Demetrio Digrado","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56612871209292,"sku":null,"price":1100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/6790\/7660\/files\/159_a.jpg?v=1770192012","url":"https:\/\/thenomadartcollective.com\/products\/disorder","provider":"Nomad Art Collective","version":"1.0","type":"link"}