Leaves

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The choice of leaves indicates a naturalistic interest but is first of all a poetical choice.

Anna Vettori recognizes possible strange shapes, chooses, isolates, enlarges, builds a model of her own; she seems to reproduce reality directly and faithfully but actually she invents everything , she transforms the natural object into a created image. 

That’s why we see at the same time a leaf and a poetical shape , a fragment of nature and a small banner or a coloured and monstrous harmony.

Making the object take up all the space in the painting is the fundamental element of invention: the object becomes enormous, changes from part of a whole into a whole itself, from humble extra into a brilliant protagonist.

During this process the leaf acquires new values, references and meanings: 

it can take a very subtle veil of religiosity, as it were a sacred object, a fragment of the Syndon, an irregular skull, an abandoned habit, and sometimes it twists itself and reddens as a flame. Sometimes the leaf is mildewed and seems precious cloth, sometimes it is almost completely eaten away and shows only the weft of its fibres as a spiderweb.

                                                                                                     Roberto Tassi    

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