Antica Vendemmia

Antica Vendemmia

Painting, Memory, Human figure, Oil, 400x200x3cm
Arise and stand by lush bunches of grapes, almost heady and intoxicating fumes Bacchic looking

space into a huge vat , the strong male calves of pressers . And ' the focus of the last " blood " of Lydia Cross (photo

the title , along with his other work, ed), on display from tomorrow , Tuesday, September 7 , in the Court and in the

Old Salt Peschici " Palazzo della Torre " ( Via Colombo , 29) with other works of the painter - sculptor now

peschiciana adoption and Sienese residence .

Representation of one of the hundreds, thousands of scenes belonging to the peasant now lost in

memory of a few elderly , the canvas does not just play it , although didactically , but travels to the course

there, as in the best style and in the best traditions of the artist : research, that is, of pathos in all that

captivates , fascinates , the captivates, intrigues , stimulating his emotion and sensitivity that has redundant .

Each of the characters portrayed - and there are many naked bodies thesis production of the nectar of the gods and ready to

liberate the conscience by the trappings of everyday life - a manifest their vitality reactive event. From the faces of

transpire each concentration , fatigue, " trance " , almost diabolical desire to savor the succulent berries ,

incessant desire to persevere in the pursuit of that " joie de vivre " that even a simple as

pragmatic squeezing hides in its folds deeper . Here is the pathos , pain and emotion together,

never separate , one preparatory and complementary to the other two forces that permeate and regulate the soul of the

pressers , in particular its area irrational.

Curiously, in this work the spiral pathos ( " emotional strength " congenial to the Cross ) - chosen theme ( the

crushing of grapes ) does not last forever, but has an end . The " emotional strength " - that emanates aggressive

and from the representation bully - was in fact closely connected by the ancient Greeks to the mystery rites and then

to the realities resulting from Dionysus, that the Romans becomes Bacchus, god of wine and of the harvest ... And the circle is

closed , the spiral unfolds slowly and rejoins its extremes .

Alongside all this, in the bottom left, a little boy ready to call up the voice, Pascoli

memory , hidden deep within each of us, young child entrusted with the legacy of a culture and the

witness of tradition. Even if the technological times shall burn them on the altar of the machines and

engineering at the service of man. Still, it remains clear as steel track in the imagination

collective that never dies .

Piero Giannini

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