How many times have you been in a room full of people but each one of them looking at the phone? Or maybe lying next to your partner or boyfriend and being more attracted by what is happening on a screen?
These are situations that happen to everyone, almost every day, without us realising it, yet as soon as someone points it out to us, we feel a sense of sadness.
These are exactly the moments that Tony Toscani captures in his paintings. 

Tony Toscani is an artist who grew up in the suburbs of New Jersey and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York, working for a short time at Sotheby’s, taking inspiration from all the masterpieces he dealt with every day. 

Today Tony Toscani uses art to reflect, and make the viewer reflect, on everyday life and the impact that technology has had on us. So we find ourselves looking at huge canvases depicting lonely, bored people looking into the endless emptiness of computers or telephones. The bodies are hunched and loose, the arms are degrees and absurdly long, while the heads are clearly smaller than the body. Through these distortions, the artist emphasises how our heads and therefore our brains and thoughts are slowly losing importance, leaving more and more room for what we look at on our devices. 

The atmosphere of melancholy and resignation is amplified by a palette of cold colours dominated by a grey scale that makes life tasteless.