Reflections 01

"The miracle of the Sign...."

It comes to life from the deep activities of the Spirit where it pauses in a perpetual of incorporeal state. It remains latent, dormant, until the moment when the tenacity of the individual succeeds in highlighting it by instilling in him that vital charge that will awaken him in the lucid spontaneity of a gesture.

And that gesture emerges from the most powerful arcane force of intuition. It comes from that intimate and occult place where the principle and the generative cause of every imaginary-creative act, hide.

And from that act comes the expressive action capable of focusing on the playful and subjective skill of the creative individual; through this personal subjectivity he can capture the most elementary gesture, and then it continues to forge it from time to time, until it turns into a physical essence and therefore Signs.

And as Sign it frees itself, exultantly in space, to witness the fundamental passage from inorganic to the organic form. Following the same natural path of the generation of the universe, as well as at the dawn of the generation of life, in which the antimatter in the identical instant has projected itself towards the matter.

And so the individual is surprised each time immersed in an imaginative game, which extends in time and space and engages him more and more in the continuous discovery of secretive and mysterious geometries of the Soul.

The task is to immerse on the archaic meanderings of memory and the unconscious, in a kind of fundamental journey into the imagination, to explore and giving life to more intricate forms and located at the opposite ends of the intellect, in that place where the contradictions of the spirit set in motion creative acts.

These are the words I consider most congenial to latest series of ink drawings entitled "MethaMorphye"

The series includes a total of 40 original drawings, 30 x 40 cms.

From the series "The Dynamics of Inertia"

One must allow being carried away by the momentum capable of generating the Shapes.

One must allow being carried away by the astonishment and the ability to awaken that subtle ability that allows the individual to accept the moment in which musicality takes shape from the silence of a gesture, and where the chaining of the dark movements of the spirit pushes in search of a glimmer of light, which can lead towards that dimension where all the contradictory forces of the human soul are highlighted and compared with great power.

"A whirlwind rises from the absolute stillness that imprisoned it; thus the vital displacement of the basic particles and their concatenation begin to generate matter and their consolidation in the perpetual peregrination in the infinity of the cosmos".

(R.N.O.)

Focus

“Phenomenology of Transfiguration”

I consider “Phenomenology of Transfiguration” to be the natural continuation of my previous series, “Methamorphye”, which I began two years ago and which consists of around fifty black and white works created using Indian ink on paper.

While in the paintings preceding this latest series my work focused specifically on the study of polychromy and the exploration of its potential, my attention has now shifted and is concentrated with great energy on this extensive series of ink drawings, where the main intention is to move, with ever greater conviction, towards the rediscovery of that essential structure that has always been considered the basis of painting, namely drawing.

In fact, drawing, in its essentiality, and ink in particular, clearly allowed me to give each work the immediacy of energetic impulse, as well as the possibility to convey in the most appropriate way the impact and emotion necessary to achieve a more spontaneous, direct and expressive result, and fundamentally more in tune with my energy.

In addition to the expressive power of ink, I also wanted to combine the instinctive with the objective, so that they could help me better capture that inner motion – the liberating impulse – necessary to focus all my creative energy on the two-dimensional surface of the paper, transforming its initial appearance from empty space to a space of imagination that transcends pre-established boundaries.

During the course of my work, I deliberately sought to exhaust/wear out the paper (as if it were a surface of the soul), trying to push it to the limits of its wear and tear. The aim was to scrutinise the most intimate fibres of the surface, to reveal any element that still had potential and from which to bring out a further, essential secret harmony...

waiting for a new ‘entity’ to suddenly reveal itself to me, coming from a universe or geography that had long since disappeared and been forgotten, fascinated by how the ink, as it spread, discovered new and unexpected organic forms that ended up merging into a myriad of other unthinkable and bizarre inorganic forms.

The entire process was triggered by an unconscious spark, born from the simplicity of a gesture and the power of a very profound intimate movement, whose pressing urgency was able to awaken the most hidden feelings and bring into play all my imagination and playful abilities.

The metamorphosis is defined in an imperturbable, slow and subtle way - consolidating itself in the progression of each paper element - highlighting itself in the most subtle and even less evident deviation of the mark; as in a sort of continuum that moves constantly like a breath, while from one drawing to another the vibration of an idea persists unchanged, emerging from the ink in an infinite explosion of worlds, creatures and entities that until now did not exist, which, revealing themselves on the surface, claim their space for acceptance and autonomous evolution.

They thus become protagonists of an imaginary story that moves from paper to paper in search of new balances, new geometries and new existential dynamics within an “Other” reality.