These four "snapshots" are part of a series made by Gianluca Ferrari for the Diotti Museum in 2011 in the context of the exhibition "Perpetuum mobile". We can talk about crypto-self-portrait, as we are in front of undefined, elusive figures.
The artist's identifications are placed in details that emerge in different ways and spaces within the work: the face is repeated in different poses and emerges from the space of the work, in motion, in continuous becoming. Each snapshot allows and at the same time requires a continuous and repeated vision: the process of creation underlines Ferrari's will to build a visual and mental connection with the viewer who enters as an active part of the creative process.
The self-portrait, as the artist himself said, "is the gesture of someone who decides to escape the randomness and unpredictability of life, expressing the natural determination to assert his own existence".
Donated by the Artist, 2011
