Un intimo sconosciuto (An intimate stranger) is a self-portrait reflected in my own eye, a symbol of a constant inner search. The work arises from a confrontation with the events depicted in my previous paintings, while questioning their significance: in a life that flows as an uninterrupted succession of occurrences, I wonder how much weight they have truly held and how much meaning has been attributed by my own gaze.

From this tension between significance and insignificance emerges a sense of existential emptiness, a distance that renders the reflected image almost foreign. It is within this dissonance that the search for an elusive identity takes shape.

The work thus becomes both the culmination of an awareness and, at the same time, the beginning of a new journey: an image that interrogates the gaze, memory, and the very essence of the self-portrait.

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