 As per Wittgenstein’s conception of the silence of ‘logos’, the allusive and ‘illogical’ picture only allows for the intuition of the deep non-sense behind life that is performed and represented in the act of dripping. The allusive painting is therefore a balance between the fascinating infinite world of nature’s shapes and the void, the anguish, the surprising non-sense of life beneath. In order to escape from the traps of logics and conventional shape I use strong and contrasting colors, at times hinting to emotions or else fading away from life. I look for shapes that are unpredictable, aimless paths, at times completed on canvas or else incomplete outside the perimeters…. My painting aims towards subtraction, rarefaction, synthesis…. As the culture of image, realism and hyper-realism, is dominating our culture, I am looking for “the house of being’ in the allusive sign. De-structuring any scheme or recognizable pattern is a way to find new meaning if possible or, else, to discover the meaninglessness of existence, which is (with Wittgenstein) perhaps the meaning. When my paintings and sculptures make the observer feel extraneous, or perceive a sense of void, I believe they have reached their most authentic goal. By de-structuring our construction of the image of the world and its meaning (that comes through well known and predictable shapes and forms) my works lead towards looking for new meanings within the absence of sense that is created. In that absence may be the true essence of human existence. The painting in the painting can be seen as the key to the riddle; a way out that may open through new levels of existence. These levels of existence can be brought to an infinite research for a solution that never comes. In the end, thus, the riddle itself is the solution; a desperate and fascinating non sense, that is expressed in the paradoxical relationships between shapes and colors, empty and full spaces, human will and obstacles, knowledge and mistery. Sculptures My sculptures contain what cannot be part of a painting that is transparency. We can look beyond, and the sculpture is a filter to what we see (like a cut, but differently from it). Reality can be grasped physically and metaphorically through art. Since we tend to see what we expect to see, the sculptures’ transparency is aimed to show something in a different way and to give experience a new read. Here as well a de-construction of the forms and colors of a known reality may happen, together with a new vision of reality. |
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