2018 - 3d collage - 86 H x 86 W x 6 cm - printed-paper and cardboard - unframed

‘Fading Away #2’ is part of a body of work inspired by the idea of 'fading' - memories, ideas, identity. In an era where we have to manage an incredible amount of information, we struggle to keep memory of our points of reference, our story. So the memory of celebrities, once very famous, makes us feel good and reassured...

The man depicted in this collage is Charlie Chaplin.

I want to investigate how personal memory of a celebrity is often interlaced and overlapped with a common memory, a memory that we share with our community or a big number of people.

Charlie Chaplin brings me back memories from my childhood. In the ’70-’80 the Italian tv used to broadcast every Saturday at 1.30 pm a program called 'Oggi le comiche’ with old comic films with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton etc. At that time we, Italian kids, used to go to school on Saturday until 12.30 so we could see it after coming back from school. As a special concession from my parents I could have lunch in the living room in front of the tv to watch it.

Every italian kid in my age remember this program and smile remembering the joy and laughters, watching it...

As for all my collages, printed-paper, recycled from magazines, leaflets and catalogues has been used as a medium. Printed-paper offers fragmented insights of our society, it is full of shattered memories, stories and advertising messages. It represents universal features of our cultural environment.

Like our memories and identities, this portrait is fluid and mobile, constantly changeable as soon as the viewer moves, an abstract composition although the original image is always recognizable.

One piece ready to hang. No frame.