REALE/VIRTUALE (1993)

The work consists of a very fine hand‑blown glass vessel placed above a projector specifically designed by the artist. The precisely calibrated light is projected upward, passing through the center of the vessel.

Within it, countless reflections and luminous rebounds occur, yet they extinguish themselves without producing any visible image. However, if a three‑dimensional object is placed inside the container, the curved inner surface reconstructs, through its interaction with the light, a mirrored reflection of the object—an equivalent, immaterial, and inverted image.

In this way, the light becomes revealed, and the interplay of optical reflections generates distortions and magnifications within the image—effects that Fogliati described as “luminous dances in an ancient transparent vessel, always yielding a different outcome.”