Oreste's regret

The inspiration comes from the “Lottatori” attributed to Mirone of Eleutère (V sec a.c.), a sport scene with precise rules that attributes the Victoria to the more skilful and strong athlete. Extreme sexual confusion between two bodies with strong connotation of ambiguity. The point of view is nearly that one of the television camera that chases the personages and it nearly blows on their necks.

The spectator is therefore on the shoulders of the personages and is impotent regarding the outcome of this fighting in which the nakedness and the position of the protagonists prevents to recognize them and to attribute them an identity.

Raciti let the spectator the task of choosing if the scene is real (Oreste kills Egisto), or if it is a plastic representation of sublimate confrontation in sport or at last metaphysical expression of a irredeemable/irremediable sense of guiltiness from which Oreste comes overwhelmed.

The border between truth and metaphor is indicated from the thin , nearly ethereal line that cuts the picture in half, psychic horizon and only mark which distinguishes the atmosphere.