Primo piano (Close-up), March 2002. Blood on Fabriano paper, 70 X 50 cm. Photographer Andrea Rosset.
Carta (Paper), May 2002. Blood on Fabriano paper, 50 X 74 cm. Photographer Andrea Rosset.
Carta (Paper), July 2002. Blood on Fabriano paper, 50 X 74 cm. Photographer Andrea Rosset.
Velina (Tissue paper), September 2002. Blood on butcher's paper, 25 X 37 cm. Photographer Andrea Rosset.
Velina (Tissue paper), September 2002. Blood on butcher's paper, 25 X 37 cm. Photographer Andrea Rosset.
Velina (Tissue paper), September 2002. Blood on butcher's paper, 25 X 37 cm. Photographer Andrea Rosset.
Velina (Tissue paper), September 2002. Blood on butcher's paper, 25 X 37 cm. Photographer Andrea Rosset.
Velina (Tissue paper), September 2002. Blood on butcher's paper, 25 X 37 cm. Photographer Andrea Rosset.
Circolazione + (Circulation +), January 2002. Blood on Fabriano watercolor paper, 50 X 70 cm. Photographer Andrea Rosset.
Circolazione ∞ (Circulation ∞), March 2002. Blood on Fabriano watercolor paper, 50 X 70 cm. Photographer Andrea Rosset.
Red, May 2002. Blood on red card, 70 X 90 cm. Photographer Andrea Rosset
Red, May 2002. Blood on red card, 70 X 100 cm. Photographer Andrea Rosset
Porta (Door), April 2002. Blood on Fabriano watercolor paper, 100 X 130 cm. Photographer Andrea Rosset.
Testa (Head), April 2002. Blood on Fabriano watercolor paper, 100 X 130 cm. Photographer Andrea Rosset.
Mano (Hand), May 2002. Blood on Fabriano watercolor paper, 100 X 130 cm. Photographer Andrea Rosset.
Studio per autoritratto (Study for self-portrait), February 2002. Blood on Fabriano watercolor paper, 70 X 100 cm. Photographer Andrea Rosset.
Grande autoritratto 1 (Large self-portrait 1), March 2002. Blood on Fabriano paper,! 00 X 120 cm. Photographer Andrea Rosset.
Grande autoritratto 2 (Large self-portrait 2), June-July 2002. Blood on Fabriano paper, 180 X 150 cm. Photographer Andrea Rosset.
Campione (Sample), March 2002. Blood on wallpaper, 100 X 50 cm. Photographer Andrea Rosset.
Autoritratto (Self-portrait), June 2002. Blood on wallpaper, 70 X 50 cm. Photographer Andrea Rosset.
Monomaterico (Monomateric), June 2002. Blood on sheet metal with a thickness of 10 mm., 70 X 50 cm. Photographer Andrea Rosset.

Non sto più nella pelle (I’m beside oneself)

Twenty works painted with my blood


2002

Different media and formats.

It was perhaps destiny that it would end like this. It was perhaps written, as happens in many families, that children continue the work begun by their fathers.

My grandfather was a butcher, my father was in turn a butcher, I was a “Young butcher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice”.

Looking at my companions painting I thought that as a painter exhibits his works, he hangs the canvas on the wall, so a performer shows his flesh; it manifests itself through the body and the body becomes a support for a language. It is language itself.

Now I am no longer beside myself because my body has become too tight a container. I feel a pressure that pushes what is inside outward; I extract, show, “wrap” and offer.

The works on paper move in this direction; they are parcels similar to those with which you come out of a butcher’s shop: containers for sections of the body, sections of what once contained.

 

All the works are born from images projected on the support and pictorially traced with my blood. There is no interest in the pictorial fact but the self-surprise of an image that physically comes out of one’s body. I am out of myself …

I am out of me.