and tight-rope walkers
| The playing cards, in particular the king and queen of hearts, and the unpredictable
joker, the dice with their aspect of opportunity and destiny,
the figures cut from illustrated magazines capturing models in
dancing or acrobatic poses, the tender plump babies, the naked
couples of happy parents holding hands with their children, the
shell, the pearls, minerals worn out by time, are all re-occuring
themes rich in symbolic value [...] Sveva Mandolesi, Expert of Contemporary Art My artistic work is full of children, animals, harlequins,
minstrels and tight-rope walkers, of merry-go-round and circus,
of playing cards and dice, of old and new symbols. It is an enchanted
play-space, full of mysterious, ironic associations; a dream world
where perception of space and time are different. Symbols of time
are often found in my paintings: arrows batteries, fossils, pebbles,
minerals, copper wires, pearls, shell, pencils, pen-nibs, papers on
which we find the first unsteady words of a baby, the first dictation,
the first conposition, the first picture drawn, they are objects,
icons that change, move and document, they are the sign of time
like the family photographs. |
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