AN IMAGE...

Of an image, particularly if it is not well known, when someone looks at it for the first time, generally you can notice the most overlooking aspects. We can be hit by the synthesis of the structural architecture or by the analysis of the particolar minutes. The forms of judice and the memory which derive come out from our observation or from the amount of the sensations we extract from them.
Reduce the image to a kind of two dimensions illustration, catch it like a form of picture-card, is the risk that each observer carries on.
To say that as Federico Zeri we must put ourselves”behind the image” or “in front of the image” if we want to disturb Vittorio Sgarbi. Apart the word games, or better the books, to observe an image we must more easily to have recourse to supplementary informations such as referencies and connections to other expressive and artistic forms, ancestors and descendants of style, compositive and achievement thecniques. But also a name, a date, an analogy cooperate to put a work in the space and in the time, they give back to the”post-card” a sort of plenty of volume.
“The factories- Gianlorenzo Bernini used to say- are the portrait of the princes’ soul.
Every “factory”, every construction, if as construction we intend also the iconic or anacronic image, holds, when it doesn’t hid a “portrait” which reflects the main traits of a man, of an époque, of a society.
To discover and know the features of an image made by Fabrizio Carotti we need therefore to go behyond the simple exterior data, to the circumstances, to the informations.

Giancarlo Bassotti