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Michele Macchia’s works have a colossal flaw, if each have a precise function and adequate thickness.
you can call it that (sorry for the paradox!): they are And it’s especially from what comes the pleasantness
beautiful. This may seem like a joke; indeed it is. of the work: from its intrinsic harmony.
But there is a truth at the bottom of the joke: the

beauty of Miche Macchia’s work and the sympathy Let’s start with the shape. The directions of the shape
that they inspire, risk hiding from the eyes of a are at least two (but each of them branches off in other
hasty or superficial observer the profound thought possible proposals): one that respects the trend of the

that his painting conceals and reveals at the same natural lines of the material and recovers the figure
time: it conceals because - as we are saying - the with an attempt to give suggestions by thinning the
pleasantness of the vision attracts the attention of the forms; that is the figural assembled, where assembly is
observer; and reveals, because if you look carefully in itself a constructive operation that puts in progress
at these works, they reveal a conceptual structure of needs and perspectives mostly unedited. And in doing

extreme interest, which is possible (indeed necessary) so, they also discover that those differences were
to identify ”within” the harmony of form. Indeed, not completely skewed between them, but perhaps
it has a logic that guides it, a logic that could be derived from common roots and complementary

defined as the logic of ”Usual different”. But let’s go instances. And this also explains the fascination that
in order: the levels in which Michele Macchia’s work this painting by Michele Macchia exercises on our
is structured are substantially three: the form, the taste: there is a sort of mystery finally revealed, as if
thought, the state of mind; and they are (it must be what was inside of us and it remained unspoken was
acknowledged) equally distributed: as a whole, they finally said by the artist to us with sufficient clarity,

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