The Gisi Family
Digital Photography, Portrait, 120x150x3cm
"The Gisi Family" is a work of 2002 and began as a portrait on commission.
The peculiarity of this work lies in the fact that the three figures (father, mother and son) do not exist in reality but are the same person that is the client who contacted me because I did his portrait.
Not knowing much about him, in our meeting I made him some questions to figure out who he was and knowing something personal, and among the questions I asked him what was the dream or what he wanted to be in his life; he replied dryly what he believed about himself:
"I am a fag shit that really would have liked to be born a woman, having a husband, children, and have a family."
At that point I thought that his ideal portrait could be just the family who dreamed and that he wanted to have. I liked the idea, and I accepted the challenge and the commission.
I did pose for three times using the machine as an analog Hasselblad and taking black and white pictures of him as father, mother and son, then I realized the work with my technique of digital painting. Coloring pictures and transforming the photographic base of the three characters that make his ideal family I crowned his dream of his ideal Perfect human being that is a woman, mother and wife.
The title comes from the ironic nickname by which his friends called him, "Gisella" or simplier "Gisi". From this reason the nonexistent surname "The Gisi Family".
That work was published in my first volume Digital Paint ( 2005) under the auspices of the Gallery of Modern Art in Bologna and the introduction by the director Peter Weiermair and the Australian journalist Jonathan Turner.
The work was exhibited publicly (and ironically) just one time in an exhibition on "The Happy Couple" at Villa Cicogna in Bologna in 2003.
The comment of the customer upon delivery of the work, who lived in a house really minimalist and nothing was hung on the walls, was:
"...it is as if had always been in this house".
I think it was the best compliment he could get me.
I realized that I had hit the mark and satisfied a deep personal frustration, displaying a fragment of his human being and his soul was now forever immortalized in "The Gisi Family".
Mataro
The peculiarity of this work lies in the fact that the three figures (father, mother and son) do not exist in reality but are the same person that is the client who contacted me because I did his portrait.
Not knowing much about him, in our meeting I made him some questions to figure out who he was and knowing something personal, and among the questions I asked him what was the dream or what he wanted to be in his life; he replied dryly what he believed about himself:
"I am a fag shit that really would have liked to be born a woman, having a husband, children, and have a family."
At that point I thought that his ideal portrait could be just the family who dreamed and that he wanted to have. I liked the idea, and I accepted the challenge and the commission.
I did pose for three times using the machine as an analog Hasselblad and taking black and white pictures of him as father, mother and son, then I realized the work with my technique of digital painting. Coloring pictures and transforming the photographic base of the three characters that make his ideal family I crowned his dream of his ideal Perfect human being that is a woman, mother and wife.
The title comes from the ironic nickname by which his friends called him, "Gisella" or simplier "Gisi". From this reason the nonexistent surname "The Gisi Family".
That work was published in my first volume Digital Paint ( 2005) under the auspices of the Gallery of Modern Art in Bologna and the introduction by the director Peter Weiermair and the Australian journalist Jonathan Turner.
The work was exhibited publicly (and ironically) just one time in an exhibition on "The Happy Couple" at Villa Cicogna in Bologna in 2003.
The comment of the customer upon delivery of the work, who lived in a house really minimalist and nothing was hung on the walls, was:
"...it is as if had always been in this house".
I think it was the best compliment he could get me.
I realized that I had hit the mark and satisfied a deep personal frustration, displaying a fragment of his human being and his soul was now forever immortalized in "The Gisi Family".
Mataro
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