Feet n.4
Time is fundamental in painting and drawing.
In my other works, the aim was that of stopping a fragment of time in the relationship between my model and the space where I was going to portray it and, again, in the dichotomy between the time defined as Kronos which, according to the ancient Greeks, is measured by the clock (the time of the law, of the State, of business) and a completely different type of time called Aion which is that of the Subject (the psychic time, the flow of consciousness, the time of perception).
In this drawing of mine, I managed to block the movement within the image which, so "frozen", seems to yearn for the measurement itself of this potentially limitless time.
This attempt to read and enclose Time in numbers and measures fails and, by being unable to succeed, it fails and falls, in a sort of broken desire which, just for this reason, is multiplied to infinity.
In this work of mine, I read the typical feminine gesture of swaying the foot and letting one's shoe dangle as a sort of unwanted and irrational attempt to measure or rhythmize time.
This oscillation appears to be similar of that of the pendulum which, in the form of that kind of clock called precisely "pendulum", has inexorably marked the passing of time and the succession of generations through the centuries.
I find this gesture which is common to many women not only attractive but also "magical" in the anthropological sense of the term as it is potentially symbolic in evoking that complex and changing interrelation existing between two fundamental coordinates of reality: time and its partition, movement and its being in space.
Feet n.4
graphite on panel
2015
Giuseppe Alletto
In my other works, the aim was that of stopping a fragment of time in the relationship between my model and the space where I was going to portray it and, again, in the dichotomy between the time defined as Kronos which, according to the ancient Greeks, is measured by the clock (the time of the law, of the State, of business) and a completely different type of time called Aion which is that of the Subject (the psychic time, the flow of consciousness, the time of perception).
In this drawing of mine, I managed to block the movement within the image which, so "frozen", seems to yearn for the measurement itself of this potentially limitless time.
This attempt to read and enclose Time in numbers and measures fails and, by being unable to succeed, it fails and falls, in a sort of broken desire which, just for this reason, is multiplied to infinity.
In this work of mine, I read the typical feminine gesture of swaying the foot and letting one's shoe dangle as a sort of unwanted and irrational attempt to measure or rhythmize time.
This oscillation appears to be similar of that of the pendulum which, in the form of that kind of clock called precisely "pendulum", has inexorably marked the passing of time and the succession of generations through the centuries.
I find this gesture which is common to many women not only attractive but also "magical" in the anthropological sense of the term as it is potentially symbolic in evoking that complex and changing interrelation existing between two fundamental coordinates of reality: time and its partition, movement and its being in space.
Feet n.4
graphite on panel
2015
Giuseppe Alletto
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