Between fantasy and repetitive obsession
Alfano's artistic production moves between two poles. If, on the one hand, imaginary figures recur (an almost childlike attitude to get lost, to follow a child-like trait that runs after shapes, portraits, scenes), on the other, the repetition of the elements is perceptible. “If we ask ourselves what a child-trait is, we must first of all think of a game of forced but still nice sympathies. Which means not allowing oneself to happen but rather imposing the reality of the imagination, and opening adventures where it seems that there are none: and here, if you want to fantasize, the figure of the horizon can still return. But in short, the fact is that these dogs mostly have one thing in common. They are disproportionate, some too small and others almost deformed, some grotesque and others moved ”, concludes the curator.