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to the flow of vital energy, one also finds formal references, included largely Every artist, like a skilled alchemist, has the opportunity to retrace
for their metaphoric significance rather than for their objective value. this shapeless mass to perfection but can, like Ygartua, first study the
The artist, having abandoned conventional organization and having chose evolutionary processes, describing their potential and the vigor released
to communicate in informal terms, also expresses the desire to return before anything new is manifested.
to the raw materials, to the primordial state of things. But the emotional The artist’s creations take us on an initiatory trip, they correspond to
chaos to which it refers can also represent the cosmic, psychological and the metaphor of an inner journey which leads to a greater awareness of
artistic dimension, which precedes every creative deed. what moves the deepest area of consciences: primordial chaos must be
The painter translates this state of archaic upset on his canvases because crossed like a sort of regenerating bath. Breakdown followed by rebirth,
he is aware that this condition acts as an original matrix: its strength a storm followed by calm, the certainties of the finite followed by the
generates creation. In this chaos, all the elements are joined before ecstasies of the infinite.
submitting to a single moderating force. “Primordial Chaos” Flora Rovigo, Art Historian and Critic, Florence, Italy
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