Silvia Battisti
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... writing about one's work is not an easy thing, also because the path has been long, interrupted, sometimes trivialized, taken up again, always looking for something that would give me a sense of freedom and deep silence in a reality where I walk , I look and remain so often involved in emotions.
We can say that the beginning of my work was the desire to go out, to break that something (education, cultural formation, social and economic situation, conditionings of which you are not aware) that prevented me from finding myself in harmony.
The sign, the gesture on the canvas become marked and deforming: the colors are of expressionist origin and the space is enhanced by these, but the gestural signs create the rhythm, the emotion.
This vision was opposed by the abstract search for space and geometric form, two ways of being initial of my research.
Works, styles and periods
The sign, the gesture on the canvas become marked and deforming: the colors are of expressionist origin and the space is enhanced by these, but the gestural signs create the rhythm, the emotion.
Criticism
Our artist, while painting, seems as if her consciousness was suspended, as if she, her soul eyes shut, was looking at her inside while ideally filtering through material eyeloshes a dream and the quitessence of memories.
Each of these objects/imagines is, therefore, like a slightest scenery of the feeling her fingers produce almost unconsciously.
It is nearly a “écriture automatique” which pours out from an interior need, an unconscious command of fancy and combinatorial memory.... Read More
So the works of this artist doesn’t seem to make any noise, because it has always been only in silence and a reduced dimension, as the philosophy of zen teaches us, that we can hear the voice of those who, without making any noise, guide us with new signs through the search of our own soul. Then it is our turn to interrupt all the noise around us because, as Shakespeare suggests, “the only intelligent Love is to listen with the eyes” (sonnet 23).
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