RESTAURO RADICALE

How much does a masterpiece need to be erased before it ceases to be one?

Restauro Radicale starts with a gesture apparently opposite to conservation: covering, altering, almost destroying.

Works that have entered the collective memory are crossed by digital brushstrokes that erase parts of them, blur faces, interrupt shapes.

And yet, something always remains.

A profile. A color. A posture.
Sometimes just the feeling of something already seen.

The more the work is hidden, the more it emerges how much it was already within us.

The paradox is here: the image can be defaced, but the masterpiece reconstructs itself in the mind of the viewer.

Restauro Radicale does not restore the work.
It restores the memory we have of it.

And perhaps that is precisely where an image truly becomes an icon.