| Vettor Pisani
Born in 1934, Naples. He lives and works in Rome.
Il canto delle Sirene (d'Après Böcklin), 2002
mixed technique, photo on plastic, golden frame
90 x 160 cm
Courtesy Private Collection
TRUE FAKE PAINTING
An extraordinary aesthetic revolution originating from the Surrealist movement, twists the idea of Art as such of even
some of the most recent art experiences. Mobility of thought, drifting and wandering of knowledge, intercultural
phenomena, contamination of genres, approach to the perturbing (l'unheimlich).
Along the underground corridors of the power to decide, the best creative energies drift, doubting names, currents and generational splits. The work of Vettor Pisani belongs to this molecular collective, occupying the threshold of transeunt, where the imaginary freely combines myth and social realities. The tools employed by the artist are numerous and also include digital means. The result is a visionary language, which rummages in the container of Art history, images which are then bended with one another through mysterious, alchemic and revealing affinities.
Duchamp's "Morceaux choisis d'après Ingres" and "L.H.O.O.Q." are the golden models of this work. The artist, just like the Faustian Schalk (rascal), gathers and unravels stories, he brings nights and dawns to live together, metropolises and catastrophes, death and Eros in the immediacy of his work. Vettor Pisani thus creates, enigmas, rebuses to which a solution must be found. In his "Il Canto delle Sirene" (The Siren's Song), J.W. Waterhouse's RA mermaid uses her calm beauty as a shield to the final voyage
towards Böcklin's "lsland of the dead". Her long hair falls over the ghost-voyager's head, like the threads of fate cut
off by the three Fates. The voyager, on the other hand, is hovering over a shell of pearls, symbolising perfection and
immortality. This work is, as usual, elliptic, interactive, circular. With a dazzling act of creativity it rescues icons from oblivion, it makes them ubiquitous, ultimately creating a "True Fake painting".
Mimma Pisani
