Vittorio Mazzucconi's paintings,
with the Artist's comments
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| 1978-1979 Vittorio Mazzucconi's paintings, with the Artist's comments |
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| THE DESCENT TO HADES | The abandonment of Brigitte, in which reason prevailed on
feelings, is for Mazzucconi the second crucial experience: the meeting with
Eros is followed by the moment of its lost. Therefore, as a new Orpheus
in the quest of the lost Eurydice, the Artist makes his descent to Hades,
with a long and painful journey, that makes him entering in touch with his
own shadow. There cannot truly be a spiritual path without acquiring such a consciousness of the lower part of ourselves. On an overall view of a whole life, it’s very much like as an artist, having reached a high level in architecture, instead of identifying himself with such an achievement, would decide to start again from the beginning, accepting his less developed part, the obscure, archaic one. In such a way he gives witness of the image whose truth Mazzucconi is often mentioning: the image of the tree, in which there are a symmetry and a complementarity between the branches opened in the light and the roots deepened in the obscurity of the ground. |
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The Sky and the Earth 1979 90 x 80, oil on canvas |
I felt like the sky, my love, because you
were my earth! This painting, that expresses an extremely tight union, is,
instead, the last of our bond. All the period that follow will be lived
in the mourning that followed the loss of the loved one. Click detail |
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The Judgement 1979 116 x 184, olio su tela The angel of Judgement and the demon, that takes possession of the crying soul of the condemned, are a spontaneous representation of the remorse for having abandoned the loved one. |
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