Lisabetta from Messina and the basil jar

The work represents Lisabetta da Messina who mourns her murdered lover, whose head she secretly keeps hidden in a basil plant (novella quinta della giornata quarta del 'Decameron' by Giovanni Boccaccio). These images, yes a ingenuit? together archaic, infantile and popular, with unstable spatiality, traced with a drooling and misshapen sign, are typical expression, through the sensitive references to the chagallian lesson, of the traditionalist and populist Will of much of the contemporary art of the countries of Eastern Europe.