Claudio Parmiggiani

Claudio Parmiggiani made the video Delocazione in 1974.

Parmiggiani describes the video as an ‘equivalent of “silence”’, thus recognising it as an expression of the possibility of approaching the mystery anew, of retracing the process of drawing near to the infinite white enclosed within the edge of soot and dust, an emanation of light to be reached beyond the overly crude filter of the camera, beyond the now completely open theatre curtain, beyond the chair, beyond the empty centre of the trace.

In the exhibition the video is presented together with two works of primary importance in the artist’s work: the photographic print on panel Delocazione 2 of 1970, and the Self-portrait of 1979, a shadowy silhouette on canvas, itself a unique work in the artist’s career.