"To make this room I kept in my mind one of the rare pictures portraying Giovanni Testori in his private study. Here the writer used to guard pain tings of naked men that he attributed to Courbet and Géricault. In this picture, over the library, you can spot five painting in the background. About four of them we have informations and dimen sions, but about the fifth – a man’s trunk above a black man portrait – we don’t know anything. Looking at the picture, I reproduced in their pre cise original position the four well-known pain tings, just by using the material that made up the walls, or layers of paint, the plaster till the cement and bricks, as in the room with the picture of the whole Testori family. In this work who is talking is the absence: whenever we take off from the wall a picture that has been there for a long time, we realize that on the wall, where the pictures was, a darker silhouette remains, saved from the wear of light and dust. Starting from the idea of that trace left by paintings, I got to imagine that the who le image was imprinted on the wall that, pierced, blended and carved, it eventually gave back the memory it was retaining."
Andrea Mastrovito in "Easy Come Easy Go" exhibition catalogue, pp. 122-123.