La pietra effimera

The divers The stones in fragile balance by Gianni Bacchetti tell us about the moment before the fall. That moment in which the diver is about to shift the center of gravity towards the void and abandon himself to the maternal call of the Earth. The falling stone is the act of reunification between the stone in its state of power (the fluctuation) and its ontological state: the rock. The fall is therefore a return to an imperishable state of belonging through a state of hypnosis that the fall triggers and that the fall cultivates. "Being on the verge of" is what the Trieste painter is interested in, using pictorial harmonies that are the offspring of English postmodernism. His training as a graphic engraver is clear in the compositional structure of his work. And just as the boundary between graphics and painting is blurred in this proposal, in the same way the subjects of his mixed techniques accompany the observer in a confusion of meaning in which what appears inanimate becomes an animated creature and what we know as living (i plants) become monuments that have planted roots in the rock.