Wesen in Zeit und Raum - Esseri viventi nello spazio e nel tempo
Living beings in space and time
Here we see the theme of layers in various dimensions: above and below, sky and earth, real and surreal, eternity and transience. The painting is divided into two parts. The fire red along with the orange and yellow symbolize the heat of protection in the external skies (also in the figurative sense of feeling like you're in “seventh heaven”).
Here small angels await their mission. Meanwhile, a large angel, a guardian, unites earth/nature – here the dark and brown hues – with the sky, watching over Rome, its cats, its pigeons and its dogs, even though they fill the city with excrement. (In ancient Rome it was people who used sewer canals directly as toilets or who urinated in the corners of houses because common plebeians could not afford a latrine). The guardian angel watches over every creature and over all of us as we try to survive the chaos of Rome.
Still today, Rome (and all of Italy) is not in the best shape in terms of cleanliness and the removal of refuse. Little fragments of blue sky allow us to hope that humans will still be able to avert the folly of our “disposable” society.
In the lower left we can see the stones of buildings and the demolished or ruined city walls, their remains having been used as the foundations for new buildings. Hope? The old can be useful for building the new. Or is it the skeletons of underground Rome, from the catacombs, that remind us of the eternity of this city?
(text: Katrin Walter simply.walter@yahoo.com; translation: Anna Ambrosini, Roma, immortalpalindrome@yahoo.it
Here we see the theme of layers in various dimensions: above and below, sky and earth, real and surreal, eternity and transience. The painting is divided into two parts. The fire red along with the orange and yellow symbolize the heat of protection in the external skies (also in the figurative sense of feeling like you're in “seventh heaven”).
Here small angels await their mission. Meanwhile, a large angel, a guardian, unites earth/nature – here the dark and brown hues – with the sky, watching over Rome, its cats, its pigeons and its dogs, even though they fill the city with excrement. (In ancient Rome it was people who used sewer canals directly as toilets or who urinated in the corners of houses because common plebeians could not afford a latrine). The guardian angel watches over every creature and over all of us as we try to survive the chaos of Rome.
Still today, Rome (and all of Italy) is not in the best shape in terms of cleanliness and the removal of refuse. Little fragments of blue sky allow us to hope that humans will still be able to avert the folly of our “disposable” society.
In the lower left we can see the stones of buildings and the demolished or ruined city walls, their remains having been used as the foundations for new buildings. Hope? The old can be useful for building the new. Or is it the skeletons of underground Rome, from the catacombs, that remind us of the eternity of this city?
(text: Katrin Walter simply.walter@yahoo.com; translation: Anna Ambrosini, Roma, immortalpalindrome@yahoo.it
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