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NOTES to the CHAPTER "METAPHYSIC WORKS and MYSTICISMS"
The main themes treated in this chapter are:
The Apocalypse.
The Crucifixions.
Christ machine.
Heads of Christ.
The Trinity.
The desecration of the false religiousness.
The alchemy symbology
THE APOCALYPSE
The theme of the apocalypse that includes a work of big
dimension (you see N° 1) and other smaller containing the incapability of the man to live in peace, and in fact the man fought
before the arrival of Christ but also today, two thousand years after.
The knights with a notable wickedness scythe the men or make so that them destroy between themselves with each sort of
arm.
It seems the men have no mind or intelligence for clarify their opinions. Anywhere burst revolts and anywhere they there are
massacres. Finally there is the Ade that with its destructive look overhangs all and everyone (it is under the skull of the
horse of the death).
In this painting from the rapid spatula, from the fluida and succulent brush-stroke and chromatic three-dimensionality, the
excellent images involve the observer draggings him in this bedlam from which it is difficult to go out.
The CRUCIFIXIONS.
The theme of the Crucifixion has been analyzed up to the deepest of the contents changing it in cosmic Christ (you see
25).
The soldiers who watch over are armed with the electronic arms and the dying Christ gives the blood, perhaps uselessly, to the
thief (who, here, represented the humanity) while embracing the other robber in a last attempt to save the human kind.
The evolution of the theme arrives up to represent the Christ like a Machine, you see 141, without no blasphemous
intention.
The painting has taken care of with fineness and rawness together without grant nothing to the refined or to the
romantic.
HEADS Of CHRIST.
The face of Christ has been represented in all his expressions of sweetness humanity, comprehension, but also of reprimand.
What fascinates us the matter pictorical, hot, penetrating, mysterious.
THE TRINIDAD
In these paintings there is the search of the space and of the time in movement. The images move to first sight; they are
only one they, then become three (the Trinidad precisely: Observe the center of the Christ with the open arms (you see -124)
his head will be seen full of black inverted hair in forward verse the observer. Aloft, to the right, it is visible another
head of Christ that has a hit of light on the left cheek, finally aloft there is a last head with the white hair rotated on the
left. Examinig these images with a minimum of attention they move in a windmill of colors from yhe yellow to the red, from
these to the black up to the white.
In an another painted (see 125), the first face of the Christ is inverted in forward covered from the black hair, the second
is in frontal sight and against light and the third is behind the precedent with sad eyes half illuminated from a yellow
light.
As told, to first sight, could not appear. But, after some training, people is fascinated how a similar phenomenon of movement
could occur. I is to notice, finally, that, except in few artwork, none Crucifixions have the Cross.
THE DESECRATION OF THE FALSE RELIGIOSITY
These work take care of the subject of the religion used in order to practice a ower on simples and good souls.
The Christ is been moved in the middle of this chaos of wickedness and embezzlement and he, with his light, tries to carry a
softening, perhaps impossible, to the simple defrauded men every day by false prophets and false religious (you see n° 55
-58).
THE ALCHEMIC SIMBOLOTGY
Spada has realized two paintings with this theme, one of which has been impossible to photograph. In this are represented
the surreal elements of the life: the air, the fire, the sulphur, the earth and so on.
The painting, not photographed, represented an armored warrior and the wreckage of a big boat symbol of our existence already
fairly brief that we shorten or we destroy for frivolous things instead of enjoying it (you see n°44).