Material: acrylic on canvas, sterile gauzes, safety needle.
Modern VIA DOLOROSA is an art piece of an immediate chromatic, material and especially emotional impact.
The title leads back to a trail of pain that has a symbolic but perfectly transversal inspiration, traceable to today’s realistic aspects.
The author's intention is to convey the excruciating feeling when in front of a tangible pain, in some ways humanly reparable, but concentrating, in particular, on the impotence of the sentimental sorrow.
The irrepressibility of our heart’s pain, which surpasses the one purely physical, substantially overflows in the existential one, made of despair, distress, solitude and detachment from reality.
Today’s emergency, caused by the Covid19 pandemic, highlights both aspects: the physical pain that is irrepressible and heartbreaking, due to the isolation from affections and the anxiety that the existential uncertainty unleashes.