Man in grey

La Rocca seems to move within the boundaries of hyperrealism, or the artistic trend that presents a meticulous description of reality, with an excess of detail that transforms the picture into a kind of hyper-photography. This is how some film portraits are created, which represent and reinvent recent divas of show business, such as Uma Thurman. But they are faintly educative images, actually crossed by a kind of cosmic dust and by electronic interference that shakes the faces of the characters like rippled water. Later, La Rocca's pursuit moves towards the representation of existence and death, pictorially transposing photographs through an almost alchemical creative process. In this portrait, the fugacity of the man's presence clashes with the background of industrial details. Passing through the filter of a relatively current media representation, the artist's creation in the end transmits a ghostly remnant, almost a shadow of the shadow of a repertory image.