THINGS TO EAT
The table has often represented my work space. The place where the painting is born and then the food arrives. It is therefore a place of great importance, where everything begins and ends.
A copy of The Potato Eaters by Vincent Van Gogh
painted by my father, has presided over my dining room for as long as I can remember. Over the years, the painting has been gradually
clarified little by little until it found its simple and straightforward meaning, i.e., the dignity of the
simple and straightforward meaning, that is: the dignity of a family seated at the table after a hard day's work.
after a hard day's work. The values of decent people
before the leisure society. Today, the table is presided over by the freedom of
consumption, the meal as a game devoid of any kind of liturgy.
If the sixties represented the construction of utopias in the face of existentialism, our time
existentialism, our era is that of dystopia.
Back to utopia as an anchor of counterculture to look to the future.
future. The future is an unknown, a condition of possibility, where it may be necessary to look to the past.
where it may be necessary to look back to The Potato Eaters and recover lost values.
