The sun (1978) cm 72×71 – Tempera acrilica sottovetro

Performed for a group exhibition at the Gallery of Bibliophiles of Piero Fornasetti, The Sun fully expresses Dady Orsi’s taste for the game and symbols, as well as his irony. This celestial body with a human face holding a paintbrush is both a symbolic self-portrait and an allegory of painting that sheds light on things. As a self-portrait, The Sun participates in Orsi’s characteristic energy, his love of the sea and of light. His constant attraction to the feminine is expressed here through the rays which, like tentacles, enter two heeled shoes and by the presence in the room of paintings depicting female nudes. The reference to De Chirico’s Sun is evident both in the perspective of the room and in the ball. From a technical point of view, the painting is a particularly refined result of the technique of painting under glass. To the play of reflections of the glass on the acrylic color Orsi adds the use of a gold substrate that emerges from the interweaving of the brushstrokes, thus creating reflections that vary endlessly depending on the angle of the light.