[The painter’s studio in Milan, a winter’s afternoon. The rain is pouring on the glass roof.]

Pia Capelli: This is a turning point in your work. While in your most recent exhibition, “La pelle attraverso,” you focused on the border between the Self and the world, here you have “come back,” showing landscapes that are closer to mental spaces. I know that these works are the result of a long period of transformation. What is changing in your work?

Alessandro Papetti: I used to work on motionless things, finite thoughts: I would use my way of painting, my quick gestures, to animate the object and give it a sense of movement and speed. Now, instead, I’m working on the flow of my thoughts as they come to me, when the idea is being conceived. This has a great deal to do with memory, which usually offers images of objects that are complete and finished. Anticipating memory is impossible, I know, but it is as if over these last few months of work all I had to do was try to steal milliseconds to be able to paint the moment when an idea, a thought, is born. It was not a rational attempt; it was the need to follow, or anticipate, the flow of my thoughts. 

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