1995-2001 TROMPE-L’OEIL-GRADATION, CURVED FIGURE

The story, provisionally concluded, is that of an affirmation and of an implication, stressing and reducing and lowering, from a categorical affirmation to ambiguity. The further passage tested by Rizzato includes the adoption, while retaining the shaded effect as an illusionary interval between the pages of the curved line, in a semicircle, which contradicts the straight line that had until then dominated the pictorial stage.
In this way a principle previously excluded, that of the continuous, is highlighted, in an eased passage from one portion of the field to the next, in three fundamental coordinates: high/low, left/right, and diagonal.
The effect of succession and description, which had been sought in the 1960s and ’70s through the juxtaposition of identical or similar modules, is now achieved in a substantial continuity suggested by the borderline of the figures.
The route proposed thus points to plastic solutions and different instruments for an image qualified to offer a possible redesign of the space which the eye can, if not measure exactly, at least explore with some degree of reliability.