Technè. painting_research

S. Simi de Burgis (Edited by)

Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa

Palazzetto Tito, Venice

19/11/2004 – 06/12/2004

published by Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, 2004, p. 28 – 31, www.bevilacqualamasa.it

edited by Vania Comoretti

The body, living ad vulnerable matter, revealing frailty and subtle discrepancies, a sensitive anatomy in which the subject is transformed: skin, eyes, lips watched from very close become something else, even a smile is no longer such, it becomes a bundle of minute furrows that you wouldn’t notice from the distance.

What attracts me in a face are slight anomalies, the unforseeable harmony that springs from the coexistence of many imperfections – imperfections that materialise in every body as sediments of our experiences, our desires, our frustrations.

Wether the subject appears concerned or passively and scientifically investigated, nothing is immediately revealed: there is silence but not calm in the young faces that I often portray while a slight and progressive change of expression is spreading across them.

In my works I simply tackle the many and various forms of normality.