Baroque Ecstasy
Porf. Francesco Gallo Mazzeo
The concentration of the sign,
the apotheosis of color in a captivating blend,
for sight, for touch, all aimed at chasing each other
in a grand golden archipelago that forms the backdrop to a grand dance,
to an exaltation of chromatisms, gentle, caressing,
as can occur in a mental search for oneself,
in the body of another, with a melody that softens in raptured contemplation.
The background changes, like the hours of light and the suggestion of shadow,
capturing a spiritual connection of the gaze, almost a relentless journey,
like a grand prayer that unfolds in all directions.
An ecstasy, therefore a mystical and sensual rapture that crosses
the invisible body of thought from side to side, like a phantom
taking on the appearance of a large grid, which binds the horizon
and at the same time frees it, like a baroque modernity
that is turned towards an elsewhere of the invisible,
without breaking ties with its own history,
which is that of concentration and meditation,
even if everything around is noise, chaos, redundancy, loss of identity!
It is precisely this elsewhere that comes together here,
with wise adherence to strict rules of pictorial construction
and at the same time a hymn to freedom and joy.
Abstraction, certainly!
Decoration, certainly!
But in the sense of hospitality, quotations, blending,
which is the highest sense of timelessness and the charm
of each of us in this enigma,
which we cannot and do not want to do without.