| Andrea Fogli
Born in 1959, Rome. He lives and works in Rome.
Veronica, 2002
drapery in reflecting silverplated resin
190 x 45 x 25 cm
Installation, Villa delle Rose, Bologna, 2002
"An image can remain void
what was in it
can take a different direction
and merge into a new image"
Maria Zambrano, "Places of painting"
My idea of "d'Après" is not one of "Art biting its tail". It is not a question of
"quotation" or of a joking joke - from a distance / with art's figures, as if the past did not really regard us anymore, psychically.
The ironic, sociologic or literary gesture of drawing moustaches and halos on the Monnalisa or multiply her in series does not interest me.
I believe instead that it is necessary to find / both in the process of doing and looking / a
communion, a passionate and spiritual bonding to art and life "images" and thus resume the threads of our common memory or imaginal psyche. An extended memory, no longer ascribable uniquely to the Tradition of
art, but that plunges its roots in other parallel existential, genetic, oneiric, astral dimensions...
Love and Psyche, The Annunciation, The Hermaphrodite, The painter and his
model, Veronica, just to quote some of the guide-figures, which rise and are the very object of meditation in my work. Beyond and before the denomination and the iconology that historically defines them, they are nameless themes, which karsticly rise and transform sometimes into unrecognisable entities, migrating in other places and under different names. This is why, art works should be seen as anagrams, splitting the given word or iconography and then recomposing it again in a figure, closer to us, redrawing the lines of our conscience, the sense of the body and of the divine, our present existential and metaphysical truth.
A. F.
