ACQUARIO
ACQUARIO
The aquarium has the power to grasp the attention of the observer and of transporting him into another dimension made of silence, false proportions, attenuated and transfigured sensations. Appearances trick the eye, whereby even the smallest fish becomes big and prides himself in the frenzy of movement thus deluding the onlooker on the other side of the glass. This is a metaphor for daily living in which individualism, and the defense of one’s own seemingly comfortable space, reveal a great solitude.
The eternal dilemma returns, that of fiction versus reality, with its inexorable, final verdict: the impossibility of an objective knowledge of reality.
And yet, in that liquid muteness of unsaid thoughts and words, with each little wave, a sensation, or the slightest tremor, fills the silence.
The spectator is immersed in this world/work of art; he examines it closely from within, captures its unique aura of here and now, the hic et nunc, but it is precisely in this transposition that he is able to live the moment and grasp the sense of suspension bestowed by the ultimate gift: the possibility of freeing oneself.
The aquarium has the power to grasp the attention of the observer and of transporting him into another dimension made of silence, false proportions, attenuated and transfigured sensations. Appearances trick the eye, whereby even the smallest fish becomes big and prides himself in the frenzy of movement thus deluding the onlooker on the other side of the glass. This is a metaphor for daily living in which individualism, and the defense of one’s own seemingly comfortable space, reveal a great solitude.
The eternal dilemma returns, that of fiction versus reality, with its inexorable, final verdict: the impossibility of an objective knowledge of reality.
And yet, in that liquid muteness of unsaid thoughts and words, with each little wave, a sensation, or the slightest tremor, fills the silence.
The spectator is immersed in this world/work of art; he examines it closely from within, captures its unique aura of here and now, the hic et nunc, but it is precisely in this transposition that he is able to live the moment and grasp the sense of suspension bestowed by the ultimate gift: the possibility of freeing oneself.
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