Original artwork description:

Looking from the outside at the other side of oneself, while life outside flows fast and indistinct. This work is part of the series ‘LO SPECCHIO E LA MASCHERA’ (THE MIRROR AND THE MASK). The mask as an instrument of deception, but also as a means of deepening one's self-knowledge. Wearing a mask also means overcoming fear for everything that transcends the will of man. The otherness of the mask does not only respond to the need to be another, but to be able to communicate with the other world, to estrange oneself from the real world, to hide and reveal oneself as in a magic ritual. Tackling the enigma of one's own image, an identity that in many is equivocal, overshadowed, counterfeit. In fact, the faces portrayed show thoughtful expressions some, absent others, obscure, fascinating, penetrating, caught up in the common need to ‘be such’ and not to ‘have to appear’. The search for one's own identity, which leads to true self-knowledge . The awareness that everything in life is semblance.
Fresh and immediate pictorial gestures, lit by full colours and made vibrant by a series of pictorial interventions. - Streaks of spatulate colours, drips, visual disturbances - beauty, and the instinctive power of expressionism. Archetypes of contemporary femininity, recounted not only according to current aesthetic standards, but also by carrying out psychological research....... Each image is the result of a creative process that may also include digital manipulation on canvas, finally treated with protective clear varnish. Authentic work executed by me in one piece. Mixed Techniques in constant search of new balances by Ezio Ranaldi.

Materials used:

enamel and varnish on canvas

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