inchiostro (BIC), acrilico, fotografia, stampa digitale
ink and photography on digital print
140x100 cm
fotografia / photo
Florindo Rilli (www.florindorilli.com)disegno iconico / figurative drawing
Tattoo, corpi e fiori adiacenti, 2022
inchiostro (BIC), acrilico, fotografia, stampa digitale
ink and photography on digital print
140x100 cm
fotografia / photo
Florindo Rilli (www.florindorilli.com)disegno iconico / figurative drawing
These complex synergies could risk failing but, perhaps, they give us the possibility of opening other nervous and incomplete avenues, future movements that are just waiting to be explored. Two shared elements, the body and the flowers, creative matrices which find in the third element the one and only logical proposal: the tattoo (TATTOO). The bodies photographed with education and respect are the reflection shown in the photographer's retina, they are the vision of a temporal fragment that will not be lost, even if this fragment is a point of view, an imprinted idea. The photographer does not guide, does not execute a script but watches what happens, observes the phenomenon and takes note of it. For this reason, once the shooting is finished, the photographs no longer belong to the photographer. They are stored in the center of Time. It is I, then, who asks the photographer to bring me fragments of Time because, like a maniac, I must be able to use them for a ritual that borders on the esoteric.I put myself to the test and try to find the unobtainable, to see what, perhaps, isn't there. This is why I use drawing, the probity of art as stated by the great painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Mine is always an attempt, always! That of the photographer is, however, a certainty: the certainty of showing an irrefutable truth.The design is ambiguous, poor, incomplete, partial. The Tattoo remains a fixed point, a solid base where you can land to better observe the horizon. Leather is paper, iron, photography, print. The sign searches in vain for its justification but we know how fragile and disenchanted the act of drawing is. The true power of the image is in photography which shows itself in its completeness, in its highlighting of memories, places, shapes, light, black. Only those in possession of imagination can see the power of drawing.