Flavio Favelli's Spatial Collage at Zoo Zone in Rome

Flavio Favelli (Florence, 1967) presents a special project at Zoo Zone in Rome, functioning as a spatial and temporal collage that deconstructs and reassembles a single object. The artist applies a methodological approach to covering, dismantling the examined image to create a visual device that elevates, cancels, deforms, deceives, strips, renews, and reworks preexisting iconography, granting it new density. Favelli targets the exposed flank of an image: a 1957 Hermès drawing by Robert Dumas and Hugo Grygkar, which originated from two luxurious belts placed on the ground, resulting in an essential composition aligned with the Parisian maison. This yields four square canvases (90×90 cm) subjected to various pressures of thought, mirroring the dimensions of the timeless "carré 90" scarf. The quadrangular format extends to a felt carpet installed at the gallery's center, which plays with the floor pattern, altering it chromatically and creating a privileged viewpoint—perhaps the starry viewpoint of the scarf to be trampled and desecrated—a soft centrality.