BEYOND...Beyond.... what? This painting was realized in the very first days when Covid exploded, when in the distressing alert of... Read More
BEYOND...
Beyond.... what?
This painting was realized in the very first days when Covid exploded, when in the distressing alert of the moment we could not see 'beyond' anything ... We did not know what awaited us, what exactly the infection was, how things would go, how the pandemic would have developed, and above all what we could have done about it ...
Three elements immediately catch the eye in the structure of the painting and in the definition of the space. There is a clear dividing line: a precise line that separates a 'before' and an 'after': it is "the day" in which the lockdown began in Italy ... Then there is an area very dense with contents, symbols and signs: those are the days of whirling thoughts, reflections, anxieties and hopes ... Then there is the dark area, where everything becomes nebulous, indefinite and threatening, those are the days when thoughts of fear and despair they were coagulating like veils of dark clouds in an even darker sky ...