ADRIANO PERSIANI

Baroque and rococo dresses, with flounces and showy ribbons fit for an eighteenth-century ball.

These are not ambiguous creations by a fashion designer, but originate from the ingenious mind of a young artist from Bologna: Adriano Persiani (born in 1972).

Ambiguous, since a bourgeois and prosaic soul, an everyday face, is concealed under a luxurious expression of court costumes and epoch reconstruction.

For his creations, Persiani utilizes the poorest and cheapest materials, in contrast with the pompous and theatrical style of the models.

So, when we take a closer look to reveal the trick, we realise that the “material” used for his creations is as ordinary as our own bath towels, or the waxed plastic we use for our kitchen tables.

However, since it is easier to believe in the fairy tale linked to princely garments as opposed to Persiani’s sardonic and domestic copy, when we find ourselves admiring these masterpieces in an art gallery we may find it difficult to expose the true nature of things, hidden behind a clever masquerade displayed for us by the author himself.