Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité
Thoughts on the work [Finalist in Donkeyartprize.com 2010 - Exhibition in London, 2011]
Each time chooses and rebuilds its own past. And it’s as if new eyes, new sensitivities, settling on things, would return unknown dimensions and values. So the past is full of future; minds disappear, only things remain, such as the works of art.
The foreground figure is proposed to transfer the emblematic icon of the "King-leader" of the "Magna Europe", where existed the distinction between civil and religious authorities, on the dimension of the political and spiritual leaders of our time. In particular, it seeks to nourish this contemporary perspective by placing as a centre of gravity of the individual's personality, more than the right, the duty of man, as expressed in the fullness of the sense of responsibility and participation, or, in the awareness of a role-oriented research of the Common Good, to be achieved by approaching the ideal of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, according to the original meaning of the motto which titles the painting.
The idea of command expressed in this sort of "armor" that covers the "King-leader" is intended to evoke the need of "welding" between the exercise of political power and guide function of a superior ethics which is able to place him in harmony with the social dimension that belongs to him.
The colour that dominates the canvas, not surprisingly, is the Green, directed to remind the concept that human beings have equal dignity as children of the same Earth, albeit with differences to be recognized, as it appears inadequate to treat equally unequal realities (material Green).
On a personal level, I hardly conceived, in my abstract mind, the beauty that you could hide in a so partial face, where the soul seems to have no face and almost unspeakable, but it reveals itself when communicating an emotion, when it convenes its partner that’s in us. Thus, this image opens a long and never-ending dialogue with myself: this incompleteness of the figure is in fact a sign of incompleteness of my life and my destiny; no power, no greatness are really such as to break the course of time and win our end.
Each time chooses and rebuilds its own past. And it’s as if new eyes, new sensitivities, settling on things, would return unknown dimensions and values. So the past is full of future; minds disappear, only things remain, such as the works of art.
The foreground figure is proposed to transfer the emblematic icon of the "King-leader" of the "Magna Europe", where existed the distinction between civil and religious authorities, on the dimension of the political and spiritual leaders of our time. In particular, it seeks to nourish this contemporary perspective by placing as a centre of gravity of the individual's personality, more than the right, the duty of man, as expressed in the fullness of the sense of responsibility and participation, or, in the awareness of a role-oriented research of the Common Good, to be achieved by approaching the ideal of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, according to the original meaning of the motto which titles the painting.
The idea of command expressed in this sort of "armor" that covers the "King-leader" is intended to evoke the need of "welding" between the exercise of political power and guide function of a superior ethics which is able to place him in harmony with the social dimension that belongs to him.
The colour that dominates the canvas, not surprisingly, is the Green, directed to remind the concept that human beings have equal dignity as children of the same Earth, albeit with differences to be recognized, as it appears inadequate to treat equally unequal realities (material Green).
On a personal level, I hardly conceived, in my abstract mind, the beauty that you could hide in a so partial face, where the soul seems to have no face and almost unspeakable, but it reveals itself when communicating an emotion, when it convenes its partner that’s in us. Thus, this image opens a long and never-ending dialogue with myself: this incompleteness of the figure is in fact a sign of incompleteness of my life and my destiny; no power, no greatness are really such as to break the course of time and win our end.
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