- Nothing of what is commonly considered real exists in
the perceived way. Reality is only a human meta-model.
- Physics, projected to the limits of infinity and of
the infinitely small, show the deep nature of reality in a different way
to the mental meta-model. Also the concepts of the impenetrability of
the body, of the immutability of time, of infinity and eternity on the
basis of the most recent models of the universe, have a different
flavour for the artist. We go over the imaginable with the model of the
universe constructed from bubbles inside which the laws of physics can
be different from ours, or with the model of parallel universes. Physics
has arrived and is the basis of metaphysics.
- In his pictures, Francesco represents the perceptible
objects of experience (the sky, the snow, the clouds, the earth)
transfigured by an explosion of the limits of Euclidean space. The
subject is shattered into cubes and parallelograms that deform
themselves into a space that twists about itself. The space in fact
exists only in how much it contains the subject and adapts itself and so
it continuously evolves.
- The atoms are in reality formed by miniscule nuclei
shed into an empty space and kept connected by electric fields. The
model of an impenetrable and indestructible solid body has now collapsed.
- The perspective space is expressed in great circles
and spirals, projections of thought and not of tangible experience.
- One of the first works that confronts this theme of
insubstantiality is Dematerialisation, 1997. The Tibetan
Lama Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö is shown transcending the external
nature through meditation, transforming Euclidean space in increasing
evanescent forms which eventually transform into gulls, symbolising a
free mind. The title “Dematerialisation” therefore signifies the loss of
the consistency of the subject.
- The concept of insubstantiality is close to the
Buddhism concept of vacuity.
