Rilievo

This mixed-media relief on wood reinterprets classical architectural forms through a contemporary visual language, transforming ancient symbols into essential, abstract structures. Fragments of columns and capitals emerge as archetypal signs, suspended between memory and modernity.

The work evokes a sense of ruin and erosion, presenting classicism not as monument, but as cultural residue—faded, fragmented, and incomplete. It becomes a reflection on the loss of shared symbolic systems and on the transformation of historical heritage into surface, trace, and visual memory.

“Through material, texture, and reduction of form, Patrizi establishes a dialogue between past and present in which classical beauty is not nostalgically preserved but critically reactivated. In these works the relief becomes a poetic metaphor for contemporary society: a civilization built upon inherited symbols that survive only as fragments, echoes, and silent structures of a once-coherent cultural identity.”