[...] "A gallery of portraits, a universe of appeareances. Recognizable, identifyable physiognomies, or else entities; paradigmas of humanity; beyond and inside.
Mostly women; actually "the woman"; the female gender, matured with(by) legends, investigated in many of its variations, in some of its possibilities ; and amongst them ,Serena again(or perhaps are they all Serena?).
To be a woman, to be a child, to be a man. To portray means to fix a semblance(an appearance); to want to, through an act of love, steal it from the ineluctability of mutation (transformation). Every brushstroke is knowing, feeling: a thermography that freezes the features, revealing submerged throbs, whispered emotions, screams, sounds, silences."
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A Serena ANNAMARIA ORSINI September 2002
From the catalogue Ritratti di Serena Nono, galleria Traghetto, Venice