Duality between black and white, good and evil, beautiful and ugly. Like night and day, they are essences indispensable to themselves that coexist, readable in different but specular ways.
Double Identity, made on wooden rackets, draws the eye to shapes that remind us of the small purse mirrors of the 1920s. It is the past that comes back again to tell its story. Here, the emblem of Yin and Yang, the relationship between what is inside and outside. The opposite side of one and the other that hide two sides of the same coin.
For Brizzo, it is not a matter of choosing, as if they were two opposite or disjointed paths in the dynamics of the “sliding doors”, but of accepting the double point of view. A common thread unites them, it is the invisible blood bond that chains two different visions of life, those that the gaze does not understand on the surface, but which meet between the visible and the invisible, declaring themselves free to coexist without end.
Material and technique
Parchment paper applied on wood, treated with coffee, brown ink and white lead.
Dimensions
L: 50cm
H: 35cm
Year 2022
Single piece
Made in Italy
Note about the artist:
Brizzo was born in Copertino (Le) in 1978 and lives in Lecce. His work was born with a stroke of lightning: in high school, the encounter with an abstract watercolor by Kandynsky (1913 composition). From that moment it is a choice of life; the first impact of the vision that immediately stimulates a desire: to understand why. Over time, he moves away from traditional art, breaking with guilt, by instinct for recognisability. He develops a personal figurative language that refers to complex metaphysical enigmas. “We need to get out of the trap, avoid copying, but repropose and recreate”. The idea becomes his first subject on oil canvas, the reproduction of a portrait photo of a bicycle leaning on a bridge, on a Dutch canal. The lines attract him, supporting structures of what is no longer the image, but the mental perception that one has of it. It’s not a realistic reproduction, but a new use of colors, a different vision. His idea of Art comes from a personal Pessimism, Woody Allen reminds us and is not based on pre-established canons. Everything is consciously reproduced in its opposite, differently from how it is. Artistic maturity is linked to a retro period made up of lines that give shape to his most intimate thoughts.
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