Philippe Daverio, 2003

"[…] Because of their density, your works give possibility of being reused by the eye more than once: to be seen again and again.

This is the first characteristic of a work of art that can last and for this reason it is worthy, not only in the economic sense, but as a reference for our psyche. […] Western culture has always attached economic value to the work of art, for various reasons, some purely for a competitive nature, to possess it, but in reality, it has always done this as it attributed a participatory sacrifice to an economic sacrifice. […]"

 

P.Daverio, intervention at the exhibition Bruno Pinto. Dopo il Silenzio, edited by Peter Weiermaier, with contributions by Massimo Cacciari, Valerio Dehò, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna 2003.