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Frames

Victor Hagea’s Frames is a poetical vision on framing
and dis-framing the body. But what kind of body we

are speaking about? Dominant in the foreground

is the hybrid body of the centaur: half-man, half-

beast he is framed within the limits of his condition.

Hands bound with a strong rope, stretched behind,
he nostalgically turns his gaze backwards towards an

invisible and impossible horizon, which he will never

attain.

Above the composition, in a quite opposite attitude to

this chthonic and irrational figure of the centaur, an

anthropomorphic kind of angel is ready to take off.
Upright, winged arms amply open, but blindfolded

eyes, she is however ready to fly. One may first ask the

question why is so that the angels are always taking
anthropomorphic forms? Why are they dissimulations

of human beings? Apparently, they take human form

for some symbolic reason. Let us hear what Pseudo-

Dionysius has to say on this matter: “But (the angels)

are described in human form on account of (human)
intelligence, and they have powers of sight directed

upwards, and because (humans) have the upright …

form, and the ability to lead and command according
to nature, (because humans live) the least according

to sensation as opposed to the other powers that lead

illogical lives, and (human nature) masters all of it

Framing–Disframing by the strength of its spirit, and by the dominance of

the logical knowledge, and according to the free and
unfettered nature of (the human) soul.” (De Coelesti
the Body Hierarchia, XV.3)

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