Inspired by a book on Aubrey Beardsley that the artist found on a street stall during one of his first stays in New York, the series “Sette Giorni” (Seven Days) was exhibited at Casa Testori in 2010 as part of the collective exhibition “Giorni Felici”.
Below is the artist's description of the work:
"The work I will present at Giorni Felici is an immediate reference to the title of the exhibition. On entering the house, I felt a familiar sensation. “Familiar” both in the Freudian sense of opposite and, at the same time, synonymous with “disturbing” (heimlich, or “familiar” in German, has a second, more literal meaning, namely “kept at home, hidden”), and in its more common meaning, of something already known to you, experienced, as of a past, recent and perhaps, precisely, serene, “happy”. The contrast between these two sensations, similar and opposite, led me to conceive this work, Sette Giorni (Seven Days). “Seven Days” is a week, the emblem of the cycle of life and nature that begins and ends and begins again uninterruptedly, rising from its own ashes each time. “Seven Days” is also the phrase that Samara Morgan, in Gore Verbinski’s The Ring, whispers over the phone, foretelling the end by her hand. There, too, it is a question of a cycle, of a ‘ring’. And so these seven black collages were born. Black pictures that wrap the room, each one bearing the name of one of the days of the week, and where memories, the serene faces of the past and present, carved into the white of the underlying paper, let themselves be enveloped and caressed by the black of the future and of oblivion." (from Casa Testori website)