THE MASK - Mixed Technique with enamel paint and acrylic. Year 2021 - canvas 100x75. Looking from the outside at the other side of oneself, while life outside flows fast and indistinct. The main inspiration for this work is the portrait, fascinating, side by side with a mask. The mask as an instrument of deception, but also as a means of deepening self-knowledge, an investigation into one's own identity. Wearing a mask also means overcoming fear, it does not only respond to the need to be someone else, but to be able to communicate with the other world, to estrange oneself from the real world, to hide and reveal oneself as in a magic ritual. The enigma of one's own image, an identity that in many is equivocal, overshadowed, counterfeit. The search for one's identity, which leads to true self-knowledge. From Pirandello. One one hundred thousand, how many people are there in each of us? How many sorrows, how many stories; how many dreams?

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Mixed Technique with enamel paint and acrylic. Year 2021 - canvas 100x75cm.

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Ezio Ranaldi