Marco Cirnigliaro, AFFECTUS

Room 13
Invited by Matteo Negri

Before being a ‘disposition’ or a ‘feeling’ that one feels towards others, affectus is a man who is intimately affected by what is external to him, he is questioned, called into question, because he is affected by that external object, which forces him to take a position and no longer be what he was before.
For a few years now, I have been working on small notebooks that I make myself, all in the same format, on which I draw my sketches with a black Bic pen.The subjects? The people, especially young ones, with whom I work, the people I meet in public places where I happen to be, known, unknown or dear to me. In particular, I often go into many churches, from the one below my house to the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and there I draw the central point of the temple: I sit on one of the benches in the middle and look at the object in front of me, be it the altarpiece or the crucifix, or even, why not, one of my superheroes.

Marco Cirnigliaro was born in 1959 in Milano, where he lives and works.