EXHIBITION TITLE: OFF SCREEN
ARTIST: LUISA RAFFAELLI
CURATED BY: MAURIZIO SCIACCALUGA
PERIOD: 18 MARCH – 20 MAY 2006
In this last cycle of work on metamorphisis in black and white, goes along side of the works dedicated to Alice of the third millennium lost in the land of the technical wonderland, Luisa Raffaelli starts to orchestrate her research on two different tracks though complimentary. If in the first the immersion continues and the projection- certain discreet, but total - in the future, then in the second, the inspiration, maybe unconscious, comes from further away, and precisely from fables and antic myths. Hence an rubber-band between them pulled to the max between two far extremes from 
the temporal point of view between them. The refinement of the mutation, the thin play of the physiologic and cultural changes, typical of antique authors, are in sewn into the straight jacket of the contemporary bite-and-run culture, and the result is a fascinating temporal short-circuit that sees the traditions crash against the present and the present twist in pain in the tradition. And if one considers that, while resulting perfectly in line with the times, the pieces wind up being absolutely original and unique – this that’s to livid black & whites, antromorphic and zoo-morphic transformations, bucolical settings used in the combining formula of the present culture – one understands how the recipe is perfect and finished. The artist’s works have the rare merit, maybe alone inside the spectrum of digital masters, to recover from the technological image a literary pathos , an antique flavour of mythological books, miracles and metamorphosis. 
Through, live and marry the “everything-is-possible” of the Internet of the imaginary globalization, but the sweetened thanks to a careful path in the past, a strong and decisive love for the quotation, for those phantasmagoric Pindaric flights maybe only possible when the asking for was trusted to words and film to special effects. Raffaelli gives technology the passion and heart beat it often misses, and to the electronic magic often she sides it with a series of incredible “special effects”.