“L’ULTIMO GIORNO” 2002  

Acrylic on canvas

120cm   x  100cm

Inv # it37

L’ultiomo Giorno del “Cavalieri Nonesistante”  (The last day of the “Non-Existent Knight”), Italo Calvino

“There is the Non-Existent Knight, an empty suit of armour that keeps itself going by will-power and by total, unswerving adherence to the laws of chivalry. It becomes one of the more illustrious chevaliers in the army of Charlemagne. These  fables, about the inseparability of good and evil, about the consequences and importance of refusing what one finds revolting - snail soup or tyranny - and about a (literally) hollow being sustained only by a stultifying quasi-religious code, offer us dreams of ourselves, maps of our inner natures. No less effectively, but much less prescriptively than any holy text, they show us who we are.” SALMAN RUSHDIE

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