Studio per “Synopsis”, 2006

The four elements placed at short intervals each feature a telescopic perspective, generated by an alternating succession of white and photographic frames (shots and reverse shots of the artist’s studio). At the centre, in the vanishing point, the perspective converges in the image of an easel. The latter is alternately associated with a black surface (first and fourth element) or a white one (second element) recalling a “blind” painting. In the third element the empty easel allows the viewer to glimpse the canvases propped up against the wall, while appearing in the foreground is an anonymous viewer seen from behind.
The passepartout frame, the artist’s studio, the easel, the viewer, and the telescopic perspective: all these elements are a foretaste of the viewing of a painting, which from one element to another, however, moves away for as far as the eye can see.
The same theme, developed in three other variants from the same year that are mainly distinguished by a different number of viewers (GPO-0932, GPO-0933, GPO-0934), is developed further in the work of site-specific overall dimensions entitled Synopsis (Quattro parti), made in the same year (GPO-0935).