Oil on linen
120×90 cm

The last Tale from a Port

Shinjuku Nichome is the starting point: a place of glances, bodies, signs, possibilities competing for attention. the same rhythm belongs to the huge city beyond it, to all big cities, to fashion, to the art world, to every place where beauty is produced, displayed, sold, pursued.

Flying creatures circle, collide, show off, disappear. Their eyes catch on flashes of gold, while another possibility is already arriving from somewhere else. Looking becomes pursuit. You connect, but you watch out for the next best thing.

(E)spléndido Splendente is about the pleasure and exhaustion of this search: the desire to find something beautiful, to become something beautiful, to be seen as something beautiful. And the suspicion that, just as we reach it, our attention will already have moved on.