Cassandra
Wainhouse
For years the lapis lazuli, ocher
and sienna of Tuscan church frescoes have filled my canvas
skies and landscapes: like a cocoon “turned inside out”,
the interior becoming the exterior, the experience of intimacy
under the vaults that expands into the experience of nature.
The three fundamental colors to express the living, visible
world, transforming the moment of inspiration into an “expressionist”
exhalation of the infinite that is the landscape. Over the
yeras they have become as though pulverized, impregnated with
light, rarefied.
As of an interior landscape, subtle, made more from empty
space than from filled space: the idea of the blue of lapis
lazuli and the yellow of ocher and the reds of sienna, the
idea of light that transforms and reveals or that dims and
annihilates from too much clarity, the idea that of which
one does not see: to paint what is not. Reflection of what
has been.
(...) "Cassandra's infinite lemons, her infinite pomegranates,
the long sky-blue (lapis lazuli?) brush strokes symbolize
countless variations on reality, the exact opposite of monotony
and repetition. In their indomitable multiplication they are
the result of the untiring effort to go over and over the
infinite creative process of reality, with a patience, a sort
of scrupulosity that truly hides/reveals the extraordinary
critical sense of one who knows that no approach can be discounted
if the meaning of things is to be really grasped. It is a
kind of minute analysis that redeems her apparent restraint
in offering each single work as the concentrate of all the
others, but in a sequence whose conciseness does not impede
the novelty of each outcome. Every lemon is unique, every
blue surface exceptional, since each is the product, and therefore
the sign, of a renewed experience that matures historically
in the presence of a subject whose possibilities only increase,
a subject never exhausted in the pretense of finality. (...)
Pietro M. Toesca
Studio:
Via San Giovanni, 25
53037 San Gimignano (Siena)
Tel. 0577 940859
Studio:
Piazza del Comune, 22
53011 Castellina in Chianti (Siena)
Tel. 0577 742926
Atelier Novalis • Art
Studio
Via San Giovanni, 1
53037 San Gimignano (Siena)
Tel. 0577 941678 Fax 0577 906063
cassandrawainhouse@yahoo.com
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Limone
cm 12 x 12 - olio su carta
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Ocra è il mio corpo
cm. 100 x 100 – olio su tela
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