Materials: Canvas
Dimensions: 35 x 40 cm
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From the “Vertigo” series.
Triptych inspired by Vertigine. La tentazione dell’identità by Andrea Cavalletti
Vertigo is a painterly reflection on the restless movement of identity and on the tension
between the desire to define oneself and the impossibility of being fixed into a definitive form.
The three panels create a visual journey that guides the viewer through a gradual
immersion into the vortex of being: from the search for direction, to the attraction of a center,
and finally to the dissolution of all stable boundaries.
The evanescent currents evoke an ever-changing interior landscape, where identity appears
not as a completed reality but as an ongoing process of becoming. In dialogue with Andrea Cavalletti’s thought,
vertigo becomes an experience of the threshold: a force that both attracts and destabilizes,
questioning every attempt to arrest the flow of life within a permanent definition.
In The Temptation of the Center , movement gathers around a vortex-like core. Currents converge toward
an apparent center that exerts an irresistible force of attraction.
This is where the “temptation of identity” described by Cavalletti emerges: the desire to find a
fixed point, a place from which one can define the “Self.” The vortex seems to promise
synthesis, stability, and resolution.
Yet the center can never truly be reached. The closer the gaze moves toward it, the more
dynamic and elusive it becomes. Identity appears not as a destination, but as a movement
continuously recreating itself.
The Temptation of the Center represents the moment of attraction, where the need for
definition encounters its own impossibility.