La chute

This painting was born in the middle of the pandemic, in April 2020, when Italy was in full lockdown and fear, disbelief and helplessness dominated people’s souls. People had the impression of witnessing a new Apocalypse taking place, the realization of one of the worst dystopian scenarios that the rich West Countries of the 21st century could think of. On the TV news they did nothing but repeat numbers: infected, deceased, intubated, transferred, suspected, some recovered. The backbone of society had suddenly been called into question. Wealth, science, technology, everything seemed to have become useless, inadequate, unable to cope with a single invisible threat. Economy – the backbone of the Capitalist World – and social organization had suddenly slipped into an abyss, finding themselves powerless in the face of the ferocious revenge of a natural enemy that had been underestimated for too long. Even in the relative safety of my studio, I also had the feeling that the world as I knew it was lost, and not being able to do anything else but watch it increased the feeling that was then translated into the work: an anguish creeping, which combined with domestic confinement, loneliness, helplessness, fear and the collapse of all certainty has loaded this artwork since its birth, partially relieving my soul.