Pasquas 13+20, 2020

The work was done in just 2 working days. I started painting it on the morning of April 12th of Easter; the day after, Easter Monday 13th, I realised that the face of the silhouette, without my knowledge, represented the face of Christ, exactly the same as the image on the Holy Shroud. I was not able to create or modify the image, considering that the whole work was made with a single 5 cm-wide brush. The face of Christ is 15 cm high, 8 cm wide; not even if I had wanted could I have created such a precise pictorial detail: a swollen eye, aquiline nose, swollen lips, beard of a sleeping person — a person perfectly identical to the face of Christ on the Holy Shroud. This is why I entitled it Easter S 13 + 20. S represents the Holy Shroud; the sum of the day and year form 33 years, the same age as Christ, which is why I am extremely fond of this work; it is invaluable.