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only indirectly - by oblique reflection - could be Surface and decoy.

brought back into the visible: the reflexion of

the transparency. Indeed, the Cinderella is the

story of the reflected Transparent Wall, which The PainTing aS
ineffably and tragically outlines our dystopic

world; the trace marking out dramatically the SeducTion

limits of our mortal condition; finally, it makes
us aware of the advent of the Apocalypsis of

these latest days. In short, it shows the last

consequences of our choice made after the

expulsion from Paradise, and our technological

“accomplishments” as post-lapsarian beings. In
a conspicuous way, the transparent paradisiacal

space has been apparently exchanged with this

exquisite palace in which body itself becomes
breathless. This feeling is viscerally expressed in

the image. Only by looking at the image, Hagea

makes us feel with intensity in our own lungs

that syncope of respiration. Vision becomes

breathless, indeed. By empathy, his dystopia
becomes our breathless dystopia. One can only

contemplate in full awe the vision of the remains

of the postmodern condition of the Cinderella -
the cendres (the ashes), indeed, of our burned

human condition.

Nicoletta Isar
Few thoughts around
25th September 2008

and about Hagea’s

Victor

HAgeA imagery

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