Diffusionism
published on 2 July 2007 at 03:02
..suddenly I got the idea of interpreting the landscape in a more intense way. But how?…immediately my attention moved to the moon: it was its light to allow me to see…
…I thought that the light spreads and that it gives shape to objects and colours, at least for how we are able to see it with our eyes. So, I painted a candle, sign of light par excellence, but also sign of a new intuition which turned on in my mind…
Beyond the light I came to learn that everything spreads, also what on the surface seems still and stable. Each thing is the result of a series of actions which affected in a more or less important way to the its existance through a plot absurdly complexed and unpredictable. Therefore, we could say that this painting is a a manifest of “Diffusionism”.
Looking at a pot through my window, I started thinking what could have been decesive for its existance, I started seeing, even if in a low and limited way, that absurd plot of causes that it’s behind each thing.
The paintin was born while I was listening to some jazz pieces created by amazing musicians such as Paco de Lucia, Al di Meola e John McLaughlin. The music, especially in some pieces like “Belo Horizonte” was gving me a feeling of unease. This feeling was spreading directly from me to the painting, through the brush and the colours, in a city of buildings without windows and streets where you cannot see the end. The studying of the painting (and the first production) was in 1997, but the final one was in 2003.
At the moment the picture is not available.
In the middle of the painting a man, emblem of the man as such, cleared by the light of a candle, he questions himself on decisions he has to take and on “moves” he has to make between the endless combinations that life puts in front of him. The thoughts flow as big waves, waves that will crash with the limit of the room and so they will spread on the walls that the man himself built. Every man has a room which is more and less big, the signals the he sends are more or less spread, but always limited.
Some substances, if submitted to the heat, first they dehydrate and after they start to crash. I wanted to make the feeling of dryiness and heat of a man lost in a desert. The sun is pale exactly because it’s seen from the eyes of the “lost”traveller.
It’s morning. The sun is cold and the waves of the sea are big parallelepids of ice. Everything is still and there are no beings of any kind except from a man left alone by the sea shore.
A man, on a side, is influenced and in a way “formed” by everything around him. In this dynamic process you even lose the distinction between the man himself and with what he interacts. On the other side he emanates waves of thinking or action. The waves in the painting get a shape and come out from him. It’s the first painting where I detached myself from the concept of bidimensional workart and I started towards a more full and real interpretation of diffusion.
various materials (brilliant enamal, oil, plaster, strings) on canvas 70×50cm
on wooden panel 130×98cm
A man hanging in the air who is wrapped in a confusion of diffusional lines which origin from the whole world around and before they arrive to him, they blend and interact between them. To hold him, there are five strings stuck to his hands, neck and feet, as laws that seem to govern the reality where the man is hanging. The study of the painting is in 2001, but the final realization is in 2004.
Since I always saw my room as something important, I will dedicate it a whole page even if in reality it’s part of my period of “Diffusionism”.
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