English to Italian Art/Literary Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting

The two figures never cease to appear to each other, to play themselves in the scenario of opposition, inseparability, and reciprocal stupor: to oscillate between each other’s past and future, and re-enact in the present their coincidence within Laureti’s frame. Absence accelerates into immediate presence and the atmospheric pressure of this mutation makes marble give way – ***a distance appears to it***, and it ‘rises into ruin’.