The artist’s gesture, on the surface swift and immediate, contains personal history and the history of place, goes beyond a life-time’s limit and projects the art object into the future.

Artfarm in Pilastro establishes the link between high and low places, with the disjointed-desolate empty shop windows that the artist’s magical gesture transforms into a shifting surrealist terrain, an open container of meaning and possibility.

This alchemical transformation is set on a fixed but rotating axis which is the pillar (il pilastro) itself, a post thrust into the earth, the silent Dolmen propeller of Art.

—Francesco Bletzo