Salvatore Paolo Garufi Tanteri
Roberto Denti, in this sense, represents a real ending point. Author of avant-garde and at the same time heir of the extraordinary Italian figurative tradition, he creates fragments of pictorial and architectural monuments and it underlines the hidden meanings, not isolating them with a packaging - how could make the Bulgarian Christo -, but multiplying them in a Borgesian game of mirrors.
His work is is a real Babel Tower - another title of Jorge Luis Borges -, where the visual substance does not live in the artifact, but in the multiplication of the point of view that that artifact implies.
The images of Roberto Denti reproduce well-established symbologies - the Eiffel Tower, the Cross, artistic masterpieces ... - and place them in disturbing juxtapositions, or, in any case, drifting compared to the common feeling.
"Tribute to Salvador Dalì, the Cross", photo and acrylic on canvas, 2008