Homo Metaphisicus

Enigma of unknowable

Fresco portrait of Giorgio De Chirico

Fresco with sand and pigments.

Cm. 130 x 160

 

The fresco portrait of Giorgio De Chirico, painted by the Neapolitan artist, Fabrizio Ruggiero, was initially realized for the exhibition
A Bruit Secret and Pandora's Box.

A Bruit Secret and Pandora's Box

The installation is site-specific for the spatial as well as the symbolic dimension of the small deconsecrated  San Lorenzo church  that was used in the past as a gallery for exhibitions of contemporary artists. 

Fabrizio Ruggiero invented a secular show on the walls, with ten portraits of artists of the past century, as icons of art, and placed the painting A Bruit secret & Pandora’s box in the large niche above the altar to bring the mind of the viewers out of mechanical thought even for just a single moment.

 

By making a koan, a Zen paradox, Fabrizio Ruggiero offers the possibility of seeing the secret sound of painting in Pandora’s box of contemporary art through the portraits of 10 modern artists:

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