Since 2009 Paolo Bottarelli has been researching the dilemma of the relation holding between original works and their double. His aim is the creation of a pictorial image that can be translated in a mirrored copy. His attempt to reproduce an original icon involves the challenge of recreating an aura which, by definition, is only essential to the original, and hence unreproducible. Referencing to “quantum entanglement”, an unsolved paradox of physics, he creates couples of identical, mirrored paintings, just as two entangled particles are identical and yet have opposite spin, no matter how many thousands of light years apart.
His mirrored paintings are a metaphor of the dualism intrinsic to Western culture, and reference the dichotomy of the human brain’s two hemispheres.
Just as in a chess game between the artistic tension to the irrational and the unavoidable tendency towards the rational, Paolo Bottarelli creates, in each of his works, a chessboard of possibilities, a combination of moves aimed at finding a holistic solution to this disjunction.
His mirrored paintings are a metaphor of the dualism intrinsic to Western culture, and reference the dichotomy of the human brain’s two hemispheres.
Just as in a chess game between the artistic tension to the irrational and the unavoidable tendency towards the rational, Paolo Bottarelli creates, in each of his works, a chessboard of possibilities, a combination of moves aimed at finding a holistic solution to this disjunction.
