Offertorio
These are the forms of the Sicilian market, Ballarò. The work is a reinterpretation of Renato Guttuso’s painting, La Vucciria (1974), framed in the painting tradition of natura morta, or still life. Rather than depict the market’s brilliant chaos of color and shape, the photographs reveal the contents of the bag carried home by the woman in the painting. Through their singularity, the form and flesh of the objects are returned to the viewer, reminiscent of the religious ritual of the offertorio. They become the artist’s own offering to Palermo.
These are the forms of the Sicilian market, Ballarò. The work is a reinterpretation of Renato Guttuso’s painting, La Vucciria (1974), framed in the painting tradition of natura morta, or still life. Rather than depict the market’s brilliant chaos of color and shape, the photographs reveal the contents of the bag carried home by the woman in the painting. Through their singularity, the form and flesh of the objects are returned to the viewer, reminiscent of the religious ritual of the offertorio. They become the artist’s own offering to Palermo.