The work shows us the attempt to
overcome the physical boundaries of the support to invade a space that suggests
a continuity between the illusion of mimetic painting and reality. The
spectator's space is invaded, almost overwhelmed, by the red machine that wants
to escape from one dimension to invade another. The car's attempt is to become
real, to escape from the illusory dimension of painted space to enter the
dimension of physical space, as the legend of Pygmalion teaches. The choice of the subject is not
random: the car is a "pop" subject. The image is stolen from everyday
life, better if an object assumed the role of icon in contemporary society.
Furthermore, the cars, with their shiny, almost mirror-like colours, lend
themselves perfectly to representing the search for spaces and reality beyond
the two-dimensional plane of the canvas.
