De Chirico’s metaphysical vision, suspended between memory and apparition, is re-inscribed here within the material gravity of fresco. The portrait functions as an enigmatic threshold, where the familiar is rendered estranged and time appears displaced.
Within the symbolic architecture of the church, the effigy does not commemorate the artist, but activates a field of disquiet: a space in which the viewer is invited to encounter the opacity of meaning itself.