Girl on a Swing

In this work from the Children cycle, the composition extends horizontally and the figure seems to traverse space rather than occupy it. The motif of the swing is not described literally, but survives as trajectory, oscillation and trace. The child presence is perceived through a broken continuity, as if movement had left behind an unstable yet persistent imprint. Antonio Sorrentino, contemporary Italian artist, uses acrylic on grey ground to explore themes of memory and absence, evoking the casts of Pompeii and a semiotic tradition close to Greimas and Eco.