PEANUT – 2013 – 40×50
The whole composition follows the perspective rules and the picture recalls the theme of the meta-art: the cloth speaks of itself through another image, a contrast from which the dialogue between still-life and life comes out. The woman seems to emerge from the painting thanks to the two elements that bring her to reality: the squirrel, whose tail becomes the hair of the woman and the necklace made of hazelnuts. The two signs let the canvas be part of the series of pictures in which Perversi represents scenes of preys and predators, in this case the variation consists in the rodent and its preferred food. A message signed by the daughter of the Master Painter and left on the easel points out the incompleteness of the painting, that is confirmed by the fact that all the tools needed are still well visible. The image is therefore taking form passing from the canvas to the reality, as an abstract idea that is about to be elaborate in order to become an artistic creation.