Domenico Grenci. A song of distances

The Hellenistic multifaceted ideal of beauty underlies the meticulous work of collecting the portraits of Domenico Grenci.
In Song of Distances, even more than in other works, the artist's need and desire to try his hand at an almost taxonomic cataloging of the figure of the Woman is evident; in a constant search for someone and that someone we find it in collecting faces.
Female faces because there is a game between the parts, a fascination for the opposite sex and at the same time a possibility to play with roles.
The women Domenico loves to paint are part of his particular idea of ​​Beauty, defines them: “Flemish Madonnas of today”.
The faces of the models, scarcely marked by life, leave room for your personal interpretation. Dig into their psyche and at the same time abandon yourself to the magnetism they emanate, however, it is not an equal exchange between two people, who portrays and who is portrayed, but a personal construction of an intimate world in which he depicts one of his illusions, therefore it is not a study on identity but on iconography.[…]

(Mara Pradella)