Covid
Nei ricordi di un tempo che mai sarà dimenticato
2020
There was a silence we had never heard before.
No traffic, no voices, none of the ordinary noise we had used as an excuse to avoid listening to ourselves. Just four walls, a window, and on the other side — a world that had suddenly become frightening.
It was in that silence that these works were born. Not as decoration, not as escape. As a held‑back scream, as a silent confession from someone who picked up a brush and did the only sensible thing left: turn terror into form.
Covid was not just a pandemic. It was a mirror. Brutal, merciless, impossible to avoid. It showed us what we had spent decades hiding from ourselves: that we are fragile. That the distance between life and its opposite is thinner than any modern progress can guarantee.
Nature had not asked for permission. It simply reminded us — with the cold precision of something that has existed for billions of years — that we are its guests, not its masters.
These works carry that memory within them. In the compressed colors, in the shapes that struggle to breathe, in the faces looking toward something outside the frame. There is the anxiety of waiting. There is solitude — not the romantic kind of poets, but the concrete, physical solitude that scratches at the walls at three in the morning.
And yet there is something else. Because art born from fear is never only fear. It is resistance. It is the gesture of someone who, even at the darkest point, chooses to create instead of surrender.
Human beings discover they are fragile before nature. But they also discover — perhaps for the first time — that they are capable of beauty precisely where beauty seems impossible.
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