A visual plot from the series Occhio Fino has been selected for permanent display at one of the Azienda Usl (Italian national health service) structures in Bologna

{within the photographic contest Il bello fa bene | works showing at Archiginnasio in Bologna, from November 27^th to December 31^st | press release – Italian}

A brand new visual plot turns Black……

{L’inventore del Nero – Tributo a Caravaggio di artisti contemporanei | La Sapienza – Università di Roma, Palazzo del Rettorato | November 15^th-19^th, 11am-6pm| opening 5.30pm | press release – Italian}

A body. And a head.
What kind of life may lead a man under decapitation sentence, that can be carried out by anyone who recognises him in the street?
The chosen colour is inspired by lapis lazuli (a stone extremely rare and expensive and essential, before the chemical synthesis of colours, to obtain blue). Documents certify that Caravaggio bought a considerable amount of that during his last years; but if, how and where it had been used still remains a mystery…