In this painting I portrayed the primeval man, naked, exposed and living. The ultimate object of identification.
In contrast to the traditional historical representation of Jesus Christ, this version is offering a secular living alternative, unstained by guilt, non narrative and void of the religious attributes (except for the cross shaped canvas which strongly hints on the historical context). My goal was to cleanse the religious symbols of their original meanings and cast upon them universal and humane content. The name of this painting is a homage to Primo Levi’s novel “Is This a Man”, a masterpiece about the human character and sufferance.