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"Everything that we see, can be seen in another way. Therefore, I ask myself; isn't everything that we see an illusion anyway?" Sandro Del Prete's thoughts on the human way of looking at things form the mental starting point and the driving force for his artistic activity. Only when Del Prete, who was born in Bern, had completed his commercial schooling at his father's bidding and had saved enough, could he finally dedicate himself to his great passion. In 1981 Sandro Del Prete's first book "Illusorisms" appeared, and it's great success encouraged him, in the same year, to open his own gallery in Bern for optical deceptions and illusions. In similar fashion, the artist called his second book "Illusoria", which appeared in 1987 with the practical subtitle "the account of a journey". After the big breakthrough with his book "Illusorisms" in 1981, Sandro Del Prete chucked in his job as an insurance inspector with SUVA and decided that in the futur