Like a real pearl - 1991
Le Cadre gallery - Hong Kong
Giuliano Corti
The eyes of the spirit are somehow surprised by the dizziness of their own inventions.
the mind seizes an image, a mixture of things and persons, and a whole world
springs up. the eye nearly always sees what is prompted by the mind, but the
sight vanishes almost at once into an instant of optimism. The brief moment
is wiped out by a past that has scarcely elapsed. the eyes however would like
to hold it back for themselves, to contemplate in the metaphysical suspension
of simple things that have the precise and quick identity of symbols. certainly,
the aesthetic category of "symbolism" helps us to understand a work
devoted to real things, everyday objects and the ordinary world's expression.
But symbols are not just a concise expression of the power of arcane forms and
ideal models, primordial fears and unknown smiles. symbols are also sensations
by images, summaries of whole existential chapters. They are synopses that enable
the static state of an interior to be grasped, in the immobile hope of a more
dynamic future. released from the law of devouring time, suspended between the
earth of signs and the sky of colours, everything is moved by the joy of a view
that frames the world from above. Meanwhile the objects rest on the plane of
their realistic condition. They are pretences of a reality set in motion, not
so much in things that can be stopped and named, as in changing background within
the wings of the mind's theatre.
Against a backcloth of the spirit, buildings
and cities are composed with colours that suggest ways of use and contemplation.
Monumental forms of a cosmology of daily life are compounded of tender sacrifices
and fierce acceptances; myths, games and prayers; deep wounds like those of
our daily bread.
Men always tell their story by striking up a past tempo, while
the wave of a stormy present beats against the city's sea-wall. at the centre
of vanilla-coloured square floats a table, a flower unafraid of the ominous
sky and its promised gale force. the destiny of a chair or vase is unknown.
However the brief poetic moment of a fact, that becomes first an image and then
an object, can be grasped. in the stories of this warm world everything is made
of colour, poured from eyes that look down at the scene from the height of mystical
words