Sudari

Sudari is a cycle of works on fabric. it is a reflection on the return to the earth of incorrupt bodies.
“The seven paintings on cotton that the artist made for this project are defined by him as ‘faces and bodies of incorrupt Saints’: it is, indeed, about seven portraits of Saints of the Christian religion, namely six faces of St. Curé d’Ars, St. Pio of Pietralcina, St. Rita of Cascia, St. Pius X, St. Maria of Agreda, St. Veronica Giuliani, and a body, that of St. Teresa of Avila, a tribute, as a matter of fact, to Bernini’s famous sculpture.

The Saints are painted on cotton, using a painting technique developed long ago by Milano, which, thanks to the chemical processes triggered by the mixing of materials, allows an image to be printed on the back of the painting, which, over time, undergoes a rather intense process of change, dissolving and purifying the clearest and most defined traits and making it a dissolving icon, an image that has come down from somewhere else and seems to be looking at us. Seven pictorial sudari, six of which will be revealed in their double identity…”

Ilaria Bignotti, Epifanie,
IAGA Contemporary Gallery,
Cluj-Napoca (Romania)