#101 the basis for Martin Vitaliti’s (Buenos Aires, 1978) work is a cartoon showing a situation of calm but disturbing stillness, in which various characters find themselves. The cartoon serves as a basis for creating an animation. The shadows are being casted by the source of light situated outside the illustration, the light moves orbitally around the cartoon (at the front and from behind) transforming, through its displacement, sizes and distance between the elements inside the cartoon but also deforming the frame defining the illustration.

‘A New Chance for Symbolic Dimension’ (2005), is a video installation based on a scene of Ingmar Bergman’s ‘The Magician’ (Ansiktet, 1958) in which art and society, magic and art are confronted. The work uses a clever application of mechanical sorcery that creates a magic phenomenon that echoes the fakery and trickery of the film. In this scene the authorities of a little Swedish village at beginning of twentieth century, medical, police and governor, examine to a troupe of showman that just arrived in town. The performers use occultist’s techniques and optical tricks for their shows and this annoy the positivist spirit of science and politics. Those humiliate the members of the company in the name of public safety. Dr Vogler (Max von Sidow) is the artist, the representative of sublime and uncertain that confronts Dr Vergerus, health minister, representative of the truth of Science.