SELFPORTRAITS 001-006 - Year: 2009 - Tecnique: DVD PAL 16\9 + PROJECTOR + STILL ON VINYL 24 X 42 - Series 1\3 + 2AP COLLECTION GALLERIA SAN LORENZO COLLECTORS Selected for PADIGLIONE GRANDI STAZIONI PARATISSIMA LIMITED TORINO curated by Daniele Ratti

To transmit emotions across time and create a memory to share with others, to draw on the subtle surface of events recognizable signs, which can express personal meaning - this is creating video-art to Francesco Attolini. That’s why sets take on a fundamental role, because it’s not an consistent background of events, that never changes. Sets have a life, moreover, it is life itself which lives and transforms the actors. Its permanence is only in its ability to accompany the transformation of forms, of some individuals and ideas. It never has a neutral manner, it cannot be ignored or denied. Stop-frames are isolated moments of visual language, second plans full of significance, they are made not to be isolated from the experience and time, but to unite it with creative editing, new significance full of emotional expression. The subjects of these portraits carry on a dialogue with the painter through the use of their faces, due to this dialogue appearing images in which is also an author. Portraits can also be self-portraits of the artists that create them, and from the meeting of these visions, changes can begin. The language of a mirror takes an important role in the portrait. A portrait painter puts something of himself in their portraits; he takes from the subject a double meaning in which “I” and “other” are shown in a third decentralized perspective. The main difference from “myself” is that they are absolutely different, another, they can’t be identical. As to interpretation – every portrait is a self-portrait, which has double meaning for everyone who looks at it - in which the observer can see something of themselves.