Ritratti Fiscali

Portraits in the age of the digital lexicon

2021

Fiscal Portraits are derivations of contemporary language, of the codifications we all have to adapt to (submit to?) today, in this age of passwords, in this jungle of vowels and consonants mixed together in id, app, pin, puk, usb, pdf, png, jpg... The tax codes of humans are the portraits with which bureaucracy sees us, looks at us, observes us, scrutinises us, spies on us, analyses us. Through the Fiscal Portraits, art does it too, in its own, unexpected, imaginative way, converting the dullness and sadness that characterise all that is bureaucracy into freedom and joy. The absurd is also antithetical to bureaucracy. The artist therefore creates Fiscal Portraits based on tax codes of people who are obviously without them, such as Mona Lisa, Che Guevara, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, James Bond..., thus making a sadly real document surreal.