02.06.2025, il giorno in cui sono arrivata inquieta | Domenico Grenci

Bitumen, oil, acrylic and charcoal on canvas

46 x 46 cm

2025

Unique piece

Signed and dated on the back

The core of Domenico Grenci's research within Questo silenzio intorno focuses on portraiture as an experience of duration and co-presence. For the first time, the artist abandons the use of images from magazines and photographic materials, which had constituted the basis of his previous work, to confront live portraiture directly.

The works originate from repeated posing sessions, where the observed face manifests itself as an unstable presence, traversed by perceptual tensions and continuous transformations. Drawing is configured as an immediate gesture of the gaze, capable of retaining the instant without definitively fixing it, while the practice develops within a relational field where observer and observed mutually influence each other over time.

The result is a body of work in which the figure emerges as a trace of an encounter rather than an identity definition. The face is progressively constructed through a practice of prolonged observation that accentuates its fragile, incomplete, and continuously renegotiated nature. The portrait thus becomes a form of attention: a device that does not capture the image, but retains it in its becoming.