“What does Art reproduce if not the part of a whole, of an entirety that is fathomless? What does the Artist give back to us if not the refraction of an eternal flash that is unreachable? That’s the way it is and Silvia Rastelli knows it. She understands how that photon of eternity is contained in the face of every individual. The face looks down upon the body, abstract, non-existent, hardly imaginable. The eyes dominate. They speak. Truth is kept in those eyes: the suffering, a hypothesis of hope. Forehead, eyes, nose, lips, lobes all make up the genetic map of an entire existence, a life impermanent, with its unknown expiration date, that, when reproduced on canvas, travels at the same speed as the photon, towards human immortality that only Art can convey.”
Bartolomeo Smaldone