Original artwork description:

Polyptych (5 panels 30x30 cm each) made on the theme of passion - total dedication to something - seen in this case in its darkest and most painful dimension.
Painted sides, matt final varnish.
Signed certificate of authenticity.

Anorexia is a psychic disorder that leads to physical and mental mortification in an attempt to reach the "perfection". But it is a chimeric, unattainable ideal of perfection: the perfect body, the perfect weight, are unreal and changing perceptions, which however - just like the passion for a lover - eclipse everything else, leading the patient to live on nothing else than his own illness.
Anorexia has a perverse fascination: it is a lover and an executioner, like a whirlpool sucks in what is beautiful in life and demands that everything be sacrificed to it: actions, ideas, relationships, projects, thoughts and hopes.

The central panel, depicting rocks converging towards a black hole, represents nothingness, the total annihilation of oneself that the disease pushes little by little - as if it were a sentient being capable of possessing us. The other panels are in fact all oriented towards the center, attracted with no way out. The two outermost, symmetrical, show a tortured but unaware body: reason is annihilated, so the figure is headless. The two immediately on either side of the central one depict my hands: the left one reaches out towards the black hole, which it irrationally yearns for; the right one, on the other hand, desperately tries to cling with its nails to avoid falling into the abyss.

The background has lines and colors inspired by the rocks of Antelope Canyon (Arizona), which recall the sinuous female forms so feared or the viscera of this body that the anorexic detests and is not willing to accept.

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