[…] I use the word “coincidence” because for various reasons it is the very fulcrum of the work and figure of Davide Mosconi. The course followed by his work reached a turning point in 1984-85 when a book he came across by chance, and the death of his father, collided. Mosconi was lain low by his loss and his reflection on the book he was reading made him invent his own new form, the triptych, comprising three images of a similar subject, two of which found, one from an artistic context and the other from a different field, and a third image he shot himself in reference to the first two. Where do the sense and originality lie? In the movement from a question of pure iconography and similarity to that of form and idea: while the third would seem to arise from the first two, in reality it is indeed that one that gives them a meaning. The process, for an instant – the photographic instant – is overturned: the son becomes his father’s father. […]

Elio Grazioli, Coincidenze, text in the catalog