THE SHADOWS OF THE SOUL - LUIGI GUARINO

Solo exhibition by Luigi Guarino
Palazzo Venezia-Naples
THE SHADOWS OF THE SOUL - by anna maria snipers
opening - Friday 29 June at 19.00 from June 29 to July 29


The shadows of the soul
Luigi Guarino

How to tell the complexity of emotions and contradictions of a compromise so now? Luigi Guarino does so with a "Personal" synthesis between graphic and sculpture, including excess waiver of the informal gloss, ceramic and hallucinations, toward the materialization of 'UFO' spotted from Earth, shadows or traces of new possibilities of ' existence. Its anthropomorphic sculptures, cross the tracks of the metropolis, have the dignity of findings: petrification of organic nature extinct for ever. The geometric cracks become sardonic smiles parturients, satellite images of our subconscious. Allegorical representations or new to wear masks to survive the contemporary?
No explicit complaint, but the courage of a stoic resistance. No bank in the framework, or apparent obstacles optics foreground of your paintings. They SOUL SHADOWS. Unique individuals and two-faced. Bodiless heads, male and female faces are bare in the testimony of a life. The paradigms of Guarino favorite Stargate opening between two worlds: the mouth contains and retains, transparent eyes fessurano emotions and memories, spalancandosi and closing in a desired sequence of waking and dreaming. The one behind the other or absolute protagonists, your shadows are tinged with the pale colors of the dawn of a REVIVAL.
In the absence of reference points, the soul finds itself an escape route for the loss, bypassing the checkpoints of self. An artistic production of paintings and sculptures carved in butter thinking. The masks acquire autonomy, oozing tears, purify themselves, while the gap between meta-entities becomes a place of collective consciousness, landfill "waste" muddy color. And all His work, of matter and sign, reinterprets the black art, the colors of Africa as the ancestral - powder, ocher savannah, full lips - the clay forms a "primitivism never surpassed," including evocation and longing.
With furrows of the earth crust, the painting of Luigi Guarino dramatizes the elegance of her features. The artist is a contemporary non-chase reality at all costs, but a graphic-conceptual dimension that returns all the detail and a memory for the present. Emancipated from the research of expressive gestures, he opts for a more figurative abstract that goes in the direction of the sign. And 'the visual excitement the theme of this exhibition.
Artist clean, brave, emotional, Guarino is betting everything on "internità" and loneliness, the photograph of an inner world full of eloquent silences, but it does not fail to impress with quotes and elegant solutions gestalt: Projections of memory, conscious hallucinations, lucid representations of 'irreconcilable nature of contemporary existence.
The purity of this signature style is readable even through the language of film shots, in which a story-board from which to identify or distance themselves. Guarino depicts loss, meetings, abandonment, living together in solidarity, if not disillusionment, indifference, fear ... a wide range of possibilities of the soul. The triptychs and amplify the triple angle, his point of view. A common denominator: the aura that surrounds the subject. The most original painting is to a purgatory in which the artist does not judge, or absolves. Watch in turn, in search of redemption.
Bidimension outside / inside. In the era of 3D, Luigi Guarino adds depth to the film, with the choice of subject backgrounds acrylic, oil, almost to point out the duality of space, crossed by a network of liquid liberation of energy. Engineering feature of almost all his paintings, surreal compromise between reality and fiction. So his paintings become representations of the soul "shadows" ... the soul is invisible, but Guarino depicts the robe of aqueous tears. A lyrical, it seems, almost religious in ascending flows of tears, as in the horizontal propensities between a subject and another, in a compassionate closeness between shadows. Shadows dance among us. The shadows are us. Do not turn on the light!

Anna Maria Cecchini




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