Di-stanza, 2000

The drawing on the wall reproduces a door-frame, which opens onto a room with a “painting gallery”, evoked by the regular pattern of rectangles (the outer ones are open, indicating a potential for continuity). In the area corresponding to the vanishing point of the perspective – but in the foreground with respect to the actual wall – is a plexiglas case containing the black-and-white photograph of an ensemble of frames cut at the sides; the case is arranged so that an optical continuity is created between the photographic frames and the drawn rectangles, as if the photograph were a detail of the drawn “painting gallery”.
The discrepancy, both material and conceptual, between the drawn space and the physical space on this side of that inaccessible “room” is emphasized in the title itself, especially by the hyphen that divides it into two parts: at the threshold to the “door” we are asked to measure the distance (and keep our distance) from that reserved dimension that exclusively belongs to the work and that indeed keeps us at a distance.
The same theme was developed in two other variants in the same year (GPO-0843, GPO-0845).”