Critical texts, Italy, Brescia, 16 April 2009
Take a look at some paintings on display in this room.
It is not necessary to watch them all, then take some of those that you most excited.
Choose according to the colors that seduce the immediacy your view, or according to the elementary forms that capture your part rational, or based on the complex associations between shapes, colors, spatial aggregation, size and frame that satisfied your mental pattern.
You will see that whatever the initial approach, after a while 'your perception will be invaded by a scale that apparently is not declared by the spatial coordinates of the paintings, but equally this is, indeed prevail in the end they mean: the dimension of time . The area of a painting that until a few moments ago, it knew was captured and taken over your time, then that leads you from birth and in the memories that punctuates every moment lived.
But can a finite, measurable and confined, as is that of a painting, evoking the endless path, immeasurable and boundless time? that time that each of us feel when I think back to moments of your childhood? that time that the entire human family to rebuild imagine when he studied biological sciences in their native country and plans to design when you think you read in the stars or in the catastrophic predictions of modern thinkers their own destiny?
Our time is a fact of leaks in front and return to primordial states of consciousness, the archetypes of rapprochement and real removals those columns of Hercules to mark the momentary non plus ultra of our present imaginative possibilities, a short time because symbols, fairy tales and figures, because it is only through the figures that we can somehow stop it.
These are figures of the time those controlling the space by painting and plastic 'author of these works, which are painted colors are saturated and bright for superb color and copious, but also plastic materials and earth glassy substances sampled with care for that matter from which basically all we come.
These works give shape to our emotions even if they have not, and perhaps why not have a recognizable shape, and look and see that we look, we see that we speak through symbols that convey,
flaming vortex of light and wind, efflorescence multicolored screwed over themselves, marine shells closed around a pearl imagined or open on 'imagined ocean suppose that all around, even if you do not see except through the eyes of the mind. And then the stars of solar light bubbling to breathing clouds night segmentations of the Earth's crust in perpetual motion, perhaps even cathedrals verticalissime launched towards the zenith.
We recall that the word for the Ancient "symbolon" indicated an object divided into two, used as a sign of recognition between two people far from each other only when the two halves came together and the whole recomposes it was recognition of the two persons of symbolon. Since then, the word symbol is passed to indicate that signs only acquire meaning when they meet at their most remote significanse.Are symbolic those objects that in addition to their immediate significance (sign) will have another, more distant (symbolic), but not for this less important. So is the egg is a sign that indicates the way in which the birds breed, but is also the symbol of perpetual regeneration of nature.
These symbols tell us both the time that has elapsed in the first of us, both the time that has marked every moment of our lives: time actually lived with all those eyewitnesses who have made it expensive, and time only imagined , for which we can never provide an excuse, but only the intimate conviction that he had crossed the same with all the fantasies, thoughts and emotions of men and women who have participated.
Why, St. Augustine said, "the time received by men is an eternal present."
In the midst of these paintings of interwoven symbolic archetypes we see someone who does not seem so typical, titled Lovers, easily recognizable and identifiable not unusual in its appearance, perhaps a failure of the symbol to semiotic sign, a tentative return to calm and voluptuous sensuality of the form ... or the ordinary intuition suggested that when two lovers become one, even their half, as the two halves of a symbol found all 'a sudden new significance and their minds fertilized by this combination birth of symbols perhaps those who are looking at the paintings that surround them .....
At the end of this brief excursus on the evocative power of these works of art, I am convinced that none of them can leave us indifferent, because in each of these paintings, even in the seemingly more complicated, we can, if socchiudiamo eyelids for a moment find something that looks like a soul.
by Maurizio Mussato
It is not necessary to watch them all, then take some of those that you most excited.
Choose according to the colors that seduce the immediacy your view, or according to the elementary forms that capture your part rational, or based on the complex associations between shapes, colors, spatial aggregation, size and frame that satisfied your mental pattern.
You will see that whatever the initial approach, after a while 'your perception will be invaded by a scale that apparently is not declared by the spatial coordinates of the paintings, but equally this is, indeed prevail in the end they mean: the dimension of time . The area of a painting that until a few moments ago, it knew was captured and taken over your time, then that leads you from birth and in the memories that punctuates every moment lived.
But can a finite, measurable and confined, as is that of a painting, evoking the endless path, immeasurable and boundless time? that time that each of us feel when I think back to moments of your childhood? that time that the entire human family to rebuild imagine when he studied biological sciences in their native country and plans to design when you think you read in the stars or in the catastrophic predictions of modern thinkers their own destiny?
Our time is a fact of leaks in front and return to primordial states of consciousness, the archetypes of rapprochement and real removals those columns of Hercules to mark the momentary non plus ultra of our present imaginative possibilities, a short time because symbols, fairy tales and figures, because it is only through the figures that we can somehow stop it.
These are figures of the time those controlling the space by painting and plastic 'author of these works, which are painted colors are saturated and bright for superb color and copious, but also plastic materials and earth glassy substances sampled with care for that matter from which basically all we come.
These works give shape to our emotions even if they have not, and perhaps why not have a recognizable shape, and look and see that we look, we see that we speak through symbols that convey,
flaming vortex of light and wind, efflorescence multicolored screwed over themselves, marine shells closed around a pearl imagined or open on 'imagined ocean suppose that all around, even if you do not see except through the eyes of the mind. And then the stars of solar light bubbling to breathing clouds night segmentations of the Earth's crust in perpetual motion, perhaps even cathedrals verticalissime launched towards the zenith.
We recall that the word for the Ancient "symbolon" indicated an object divided into two, used as a sign of recognition between two people far from each other only when the two halves came together and the whole recomposes it was recognition of the two persons of symbolon. Since then, the word symbol is passed to indicate that signs only acquire meaning when they meet at their most remote significanse.Are symbolic those objects that in addition to their immediate significance (sign) will have another, more distant (symbolic), but not for this less important. So is the egg is a sign that indicates the way in which the birds breed, but is also the symbol of perpetual regeneration of nature.
These symbols tell us both the time that has elapsed in the first of us, both the time that has marked every moment of our lives: time actually lived with all those eyewitnesses who have made it expensive, and time only imagined , for which we can never provide an excuse, but only the intimate conviction that he had crossed the same with all the fantasies, thoughts and emotions of men and women who have participated.
Why, St. Augustine said, "the time received by men is an eternal present."
In the midst of these paintings of interwoven symbolic archetypes we see someone who does not seem so typical, titled Lovers, easily recognizable and identifiable not unusual in its appearance, perhaps a failure of the symbol to semiotic sign, a tentative return to calm and voluptuous sensuality of the form ... or the ordinary intuition suggested that when two lovers become one, even their half, as the two halves of a symbol found all 'a sudden new significance and their minds fertilized by this combination birth of symbols perhaps those who are looking at the paintings that surround them .....
At the end of this brief excursus on the evocative power of these works of art, I am convinced that none of them can leave us indifferent, because in each of these paintings, even in the seemingly more complicated, we can, if socchiudiamo eyelids for a moment find something that looks like a soul.
by Maurizio Mussato
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