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the artist, having abandoned conventional organization and having

chose to communicate in informal terms, also expresses the desire

to return to the raw materials, to the primordial state of things.

but the emotional chaos to which it refers can also represent the

cosmic, psychological and artistic dimension, which precedes

every creative deed. the painter translates this state of archaic

upset on his canvases because he is aware that this condition

acts as an original matrix: its strength generates creation. In this

chaos, all the elements are joined before submitting to a single

moderating force.

Every artist, like a skilled alchemist, has the opportunity to retrace

this shapeless mass to perfection but can, like Ygartua, first study

the evolutionary processes, describing their potential and the vigor

released before anything new is manifested. the artist’s creations

take us on an initiatory trip, they correspond to the metaphor of an

inner journey which leads to a greater awareness of what moves

the deepest area of consciences: primordial chaos must be crossed

like a sort of regenerating bath.

breakdown followed by rebirth, a storm followed by calm, the

certainties of the finite followed by the ecstasies of the infinite.

PrIMordIaL chaoS bY FLora roVIGo, art hIStorIan, FLorEncE, ItaLY

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