Biography
Hidden identities
Not always what is visible is real, while the invisible often turns out to be more true than the apparent reality. The essence in reality is revealed only through a continuous change, recurring screens that you put on your face during your life to s-cover us.
Renato Scesa places the focus of his investigation on the subjective of the face, human expressions where the mask becomes an element of rupture of the being, of the ego, interposition between wanting to be and wanting to appear. A continuous dialectic between form and content, between what envelops and what is enveloped. The form becomes a disguise that is released momentarily from the constraints and dogmas. Luigi Pirandello in One, Nobody, One hundred thousand emphasized how everyone wears a mask, consonant with what others expect from us.
Masks that represent the I in its multiplicity as a cover and protection to the world. These screens - however - are necessary because they help us to enter and exit the various roles that society imposes. We experience totality through multiple attitudes that we hold at different times in our lives.
The mask as a superficial "veil" conceals rather a depth of being, that unconscious and instinctual part - the Es - that we would like to hide because it is sometimes considered inconvenient. The essence of the intimate secret is not visible with the mask, but it is with the same that is epiphanized and that acts in the world. One transforms oneself, disguises one finds the courage to be others, different from oneself and therefore one has the possibility to manifest unexpressed potentialities. An artistic language, that of Renato Scesa, in which masking is understood as a kind of transference, where the true man appears, the most intimate and profound one.
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