The Homo Faber once again presents himself and merges with the dichotomy Artist-Hand Worker: today,
more than ever an answer to the present question of the global and worldwide society.
[…] His steady hand engraves hieroglyphs with the steel tip on the metal slabs: these are drawn-engraved
words.
From a situation of possible death, the engraving of the burin on the “skin-copper plate”, the great surgeon enables nature to bloom, the river water to flow, and the shape to be set free, in order to abstract the colour, and to recreate the light …
When the colour compresses itself, on the wonderful and special Magnani paper, in the three dimensions of
the pigment, the miracle happens: the light enhances the colour in the space and it seems to envelop you
in an aphrodisiac embrace.
[…] His hand projects the madness of colour in pastel textures, free from all forms; and delicate and touched by
transformation into pure colour and pure light …
And the surface projects itself into the dimension of abstract space and becomes itself like music of a
fantastic orchestra directed by its light and sure hand: master, poet of a fairy tale that continues …
Paolo Torresan