Men and women, young and unknown presences become in the eyes of the viewer anonymous persons who are the metonymic stand-in for each of us. A mirror of our impression and a reflection of our gazes on the world, Piovosi's works stand out in a context that makes them close to us, makes us understand them as aspects of our own daily lives. Not surprisingly, the title of the Exhibition suggests, we are with the artist 'on a journey' with him, in an imaginary journey of that film that human existence offers us at every moment. Surprising ourselves, then, of our own attitudes, spectacle ourselves of others observing us, is I believe Piovosi's intent in this his latest pictorial quest. Flashes of other people's lives that resurface in our memory as possible experiences; gazes projected around and to the distant horizon to search for a 'something' that explains to us the meaning of our existence, today, here, on this earth.

The pictorial photoromancy of the author's works invites us to dwell on each passage: we are always traveling, we have commitments, we miss details of what is around us, and here the story of these images calls us to careful reflection. If there were a caption or 'comic strip' around each figure we would know that those characters captured in the paintings are telling us - and telling themselves - something. They narrate about this life of ours distracted by constant media messages, suffocated by the thousands of worries that plague us, scattered in the rivulets of an increasingly difficult relational capacity. They induce us to think: they are silent appeals to the use of a reason and imagination too encrusted by habits and falsely spoiled by supposed necessities. Shop windows, galleries, showrooms, alleys, sidewalks, sidewalks on which madonnas draw in chalk, half-naked maidens, even clown's and portrayed faces are our doubles.
Piovosi explores in his creativity a dimension of dynamic movements-people on bicycles, on stairs, along corridors or alleys-and static fixities (portraits, faces, clown's, close-ups) as if each painting approached particular moments of our strolling, walking, pausing in a bar or a club. We are inside these fragments of travel, because the artist has been able to engage our self better than any external call. And we cannot but emphasize this extraordinary originality of choice, artistry of execution and extremely detailed pictorial rendering. 

“Fragments of a Journey” Metamorfosi Art Gallery, Reggio Emilia