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A.1.3.4

1980-1986
Vittorio Mazzucconi's paintings,
with the Artist's comments
(4/16)


Poseydon
1980
90 x 100, oil on canvas
  It is here, in the sea of the unconscious, among the fish, that this mysterious creature wavers. Monster or marine divinity, with an arm that seems a crab's chela... Look at how, though fluctuating, its stability is complete, with its closed and protected shape, and with its strong anchorage to the ground. Like many other paintings, this too could have been a self-portrait…



Midday
1980
80 x 100, oil on canvas
   



The Ship
1980
60 x 75, oil on canvas

See A Poetry for the City
in particular:
Les Halles
L'Arche des Neiges
Opera-Bastille
La zone du Canal
  This painting dates back to the years in which Mazzucconi was preparing the plans to many other 'ships', in his Paris-architectural works: vessels which assumed the millenary and apocalyptic sense of the Ark, symbolising the fatal trial to be surmounted and of the salvation to come; and this is valid both on a universal level and on the personal one of the artist.



Birth or Death
1980
100 x 80, oil on canvas









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  This painting brings May, my wife for many years before we chose to separate, back to my mind. It is as if our love had slowly drained and lessened to a thin pretence: the perishing of a love, but also the birth of a new chance for my soul. The image fills me with another type of love: made from acknowledging memory, consciousness, tranquil detachment...


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