For its evident cinema origin with a strong intimist glimpse and a peculiar use of light that winks at a child-like, playful and nostalgic landscape.
Two Oriental women each clutch an Amarena Fabbri vase to theirchests, as they watch each other while they blink at the door. They seemsymmetrical but they are not. Are we in front of a frame from a television commercial? Or are we inside a video-game? We are definitely at the beginning of another episode written by theimagination of Giuseppe Rado, the father of two potential icons from Japanese cartoons, Kaori and Shanty. The artist recreates the typical eyes of mangacomicsusing photographic retouching and brings his female characters into a real dimension. The two girlshave a literary touch, with looks andbehavior that revive the Orientalismof the end of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th century.However the poses in the style of Madame Butterfly and Turandotdo not become gestures, and the overpowering finale never comes.