Vittorio Mazzucconi's paintings,
with the Artist's comments
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| 1980-1986 Vittorio Mazzucconi's paintings, with the Artist's comments |
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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… |
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Midday 1980 80 x 100, oil on canvas |
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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. |
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Birth or Death 1980 100 x 80, oil on canvas Click detail |
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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