This carefully organized exhibition of Ernesto Tatafiore’s drawings brought together works from the last ten years in a very free arrangement which playfully avoided chronological ordering and programmatic grouping. The show’s format skillfully moved the theme of the exhibition—the figure of French revolutionary-leader Maximilien François Isidore de Robespierre—to the center of attention, while also making clear that the theme was not the object of a stylistic evolution.

Regardless of its compositional completeness, each work is only a facet of the larger metaphorical construction that constitutes