By Caterina Corni
“Images transcend languages limits, embodying that sense of universality which poetry cannot offer”. R. Tagore
That’s how Rabindranath Tagore, leading XX century figure (he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913), defines the importance of painting. Images doesn’t need any translation, neither any middle passage or filter; they are clear and go straight to everybody, as they speak a universal language.
Nowadays, globalization made this thought even more actual, either in its positive and negative meaning.
Some think that we are going back to a homologating and simplistic culture, that visual art is going to be a mere expression of technique. Often contemporary art is crossed by a remote sense of nostalgia of meaning, which is supposed to be art’s essential nourishment. We could even say that visual art is losing its leading role and identity.
Never before, art found itself so stripped in sense and task.
In spite of all, the power of art is and has to be constructive and we can find some examples which relentlessly follow this aim. Its mysterious appeal has been fascinating human beings for years, whether they were rich or poor, educated or illiterate. Art is the representation of a thought that in our world is still not thought, is the ring binding what is conceivable and what is thought. Art is able to go deep into humans’ soul and mind; whether it’s expressed by painting or photography or video, art always speaks an absolute language for eyes and ears.
Artist is a migrant crossing any boundary (of race, ethnic group, religion) and he is able to delete that concept of identity which has become senseless in contemporary society.
Made in Italy” doesn’t underline artists’ geographical origins, but it recalls that sense of universality which is essential in images language. A game of words and meaning which delete any attempt to classification. In the video-animation “The Happening Beyond the Time“, Antonella Aprile represents the God Śiva explaining (talking to the audience) the quantum theory while he performances his cosmic dance.
Śiva embodies the dynamic and protean universe where matter can no longer be apart from its activity, as in quantum theory where subatomic particles aren’t made by any “essential matter”, but they are dynamic lines turning one into another.
Through this work, western scientific thought and eastern religious one merge in dance.
Quantum mechanics reveal, then, a fundamental unity of universe: it shows that we can break the world in small particles able to have their own life. Even if we go through the matter, nature shows us that that there isn’t an isolated and “essential brick”,
but it shows itself as a net of relations between those different part composing the whole cosmos.
Corni’s work focuses on the act of creating the lines, becoming a process that can be considered as a human process, humanistic, humanoid .Parts addition and subtraction become a method, a process, a rite, but even a thinking on the real in its highest ethic condition; addition and subtraction are not considered in as units, but as a free use of the object -matter and of the sign.
“My materials are continuously announced by the urge of creating linguistic correspondences beyond a mere formal synthesis”.
The plastic strength of the sing is an essential element in Corni work, a sign which cut the canvas, the paper, the fabric and that sometimes becomes a chromatic mass sending to an ancestral universes. Even the framework become part of the work: a chameleonic skin able to disorient the audience.
Giovanni Frangi communicates through painting. “In images there is always something infinite”, with these words, the artist tries to underline a holy dimension. A dimension that is not expressed through a spiritual or allegoric concept, but through incarnation. Frangi whole work is based on bodies: rocks, stones, trees, rivers and right through bodies these images allude to a dimension which crosses themselves, an infinite dimension.
Representation of nature subject-object becomes a metaphor of a journey into soul impulses. Frangi represents a transfigured nature, which transcends the apparent human presence and time;
a nature that is doubtless eternal assuming a sense of universal energy.
Image, matter, sign, time, nature…elements which are essential in order to create an intelligible and unique art.
Caterina Corni
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