Ettore Frani

"With this elegant and very intense Bolognese exhibition, Frani's poetics is confirmed above all as a poetics of the veil and waiting. He knows how to interrogate the surface of the canvas and the surface of the world because he knows how to see the depth involved in it. It is in the surface that the picture is given and the world is given. But, as Nietzsche said, it would be quite naïve to think that the surface itself is superficial, that is, opposed to the true being of the world, as a transient and secondary part with respect to the substantial centrality of the essence. No, Frani works on the surface, placing the mystery of the world on the surface, its unlimited contingency. " Taken from the text The veil and the distance: a brief note on Ettore Frani's poetics by Massimo Recalcati.

Volume created on the occasion of the exhibition “Ettore Frani. Limen ” (18 March 2011 – 21 May 2011) at the L’Ariete artecontemporanea gallery in Bologna.

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