Marco Gobbi

Silent Tomatoes

(2019)
Mixed media on paper

Nowadays we live in a society where objects and images proliferate in an unprecedented way, where values such as the beauty of difference, of the different, keep gradually fading.

As Ruskyn might say, the ‘rustic’ tomatoes, the irregular ones with the somewhat nature-marked skin, are the most human, the ones that resemble the most to us, because when we talk about tomatoes we are basically talking about ourselves.