A TUTTO TONDO
A circular photographic set. 360 photos are taken around the subject, each of them differing from the other of an angle of 1º. They are then mounted on a metal surface. Photo at 0º and 360º mark the opening and the closure of the circle, and are identical in their setting and cutting but different in the face expression. This latter is clearly modified by the passing time, i.e. by the sole variable able to crumble the geometry of the universe. As a result, photos are barely distinguishable, sharing a thin, faint, fleeting, shifty recognisability though. To achieve this effect, the artist is aimed to modify this composition every 5 years, trying to capture the symptoms and signs of the passing time. In this piece of art he has been inspired by those literary suggestions* where the main character, unaffected by the passing time, observes its effects in his own portrait.
*O. Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray", U.K.,1890 |
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