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brushing the painting surface in worship and pure The most pregnant meaning resists any flaying. And

amazement at the painter’s skill. We may call this, this is so, because the same eternal aporia seems to

the moment of paradoxality of painting. The paradox hunt the human condition: the play of memory. Man

derives from this impossible association between that, is under the power of dices, no matter where the
which is impermanent, and that which is made now metro ticket might take him, no matter how glorious

permanent. Durably contained in matter, almost his hand-made creation is, as long as the shadow

solidified like a gem, the forgotten things seem as if casts even upon the most exquisite deep-blue vase.

inscribed in immanence, as well as in eternity. At the This is inexorably the sign of transience, and the
same time, the piece of paper, fragile in its appearance, reflection of our mortal condition, namely, to forget

faded out by time, points out dramatically to the thin and to constantly remember things. Here, Hagea

layer of matter which is the sole reality of the thing, meets Magritte’s La condition humaine, a vision of

behind which there is nothing. No hidden meaning, impermanence of the world, a mere epidermic and
no architext, or palimpsest, is expected to be revealed. fragile surface.

Nicoletta Isar

14th September 2008

Victor

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