Although an old cliché identifies Greek culture as the pinnacle of harmony and grace, this smooth image of the classic has been cracking since the time of Nietzsche. The Birth of Tragedy highlights how Greek culture is immersed in the murky waters of awareness of the Dionysian aspects of existence, horrendous because they are violent, disturbing or uncontrollable. After all, the wise Silenus, tutor of Dionysus, according to legend maintained that the best of things was "not to be born, not to be, to be nothing".
Men, therefore, rely on Apollonian art and its beautiful appearances to place a veil between themselves and the abyss; they thus create an intermediate world that makes life bearable. Thse works, in synergy between photography and painting, investigate the attempt to protect oneself from horror through art, and analyse the symbolism of the veil to clarify how serenity is achieved only in a confrontation to the death with the abyss of existence.
Starting from this symbolism, this series of works created by four hands was developed, in synergy between photography and painting: each work of the series is a unision of a painting/drawing as a base, over wich is placed a photograph printed on a transparent paper (veil). Together they make a story complete - of a life we see and a life lived -
