DOMINO was born from the idea of reinterpreting the historical form of the polyptych to address a deeply contemporary theme: the network of relationships that defines our individual and collective experience.
In European artistic tradition, the polyptych was a tool for organizing complex narratives, often related to religious or historical cycles. In DOMINO, this structure is adopted and transformed to depict the social dimension of the present. The sixteen panels that make up the work represent equally sixteen fragments of life: everyday episodes, encounters, family or urban situations that belong to common experience.
The central idea of the project is that no personal story truly exists in isolation. Every individual is part of a network of relationships that extends across space and time: intimate and lasting connections, as well as fleeting encounters that nonetheless leave a trace in memory and the formation of identity.
From this insight emerges the very structure of the work. Each painting is conceived as an autonomous scene, but its visual composition contains elements that reference neighboring panels: gestures, glances, spatial directions, narrative or symbolic continuities. In this way, the collection of paintings constructs a choral structure, where individual stories reflect and complete each other.
The title DOMINO refers precisely to this principle of interconnection: as in the game it is named after, each element connects to another, generating a chain of relationships. The work thus becomes a visual metaphor for contemporary society, where individual identities and the collective dimension define one another.
The project invites the viewer to approach the polyptych not merely as a single image, but as a field of relationships to explore. Moving among the sixteen panels, the audience is called to recognize fragments of their own experience in the depicted scenes, becoming part of the very network of stories the work seeks to evoke.
Above: DOMINO at Palazzo Trinci, with the artist.
DOMINO, a Polyptych measuring 3 meters by 3 meters, composed of 16 oil paintings on canvas, 75 × 75 cm.