(Valter) Ego

(V)alter ego represents the artistic debut of Valter Adam Casotto, who developed his technique as a famous film prosthetic makeup artist.
During this unusual experience lasting more than ten years, he closely studied and learned human anatomy and skin tissue. He can now reproduce it so faithfully that it is hyperrealistic.
Valter Casotto's artistic research focusses on current topics like the transformation of the identity, both individual and of humanity at large.
Through his body of work, Valter examines the complexity of the concept of time, understood as a scientific dogma, in relation with the non-infinite nature of the human body, which emerges in his considerations as a mortal shell, a boundary. The artist's work aims to create a paradox that seeks to exceed the ordinary sense of time as perceived by society.
The artist sees our skin and body as a shell that belongs to us only for a short time and that does coincide with the subjective perception of the passage of time. Starting from the most ancient civilisations, individuals have always wondered about time and human perception: Valter sees himself in these considerations, proposing new and different points of view featuring temporal paradoxes, such as in his work We will never meet at that age, in which he presents himself to his parents as an old man.