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Giovanni Cavazzon |
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SANTESE |
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SANTESE The painting of Giovanni Cavazzon is closely connected to a classicist matrix that emerges in a figuration, where the present-day and mythological woman are superimposed in an allusiveness rich with meaningful implications. The artist follows the conceptual idea of beauty and contextualises the female figure in an ambit of pure rarefication. It is the design that carries the event, where colour, usually used to represent the impalpability of the flesh colours, is placed in such a way as to give liveliness to the volumetric rotundities. They are forms that oscillate between disintegration and reintegration, almost as if they were witness, with their sour expressions, to a kind of lost innocence. The symbolism of flight together with the voluptuousness of the postures suggests feelings at the heart of the inspiration that do not fail to criticise recognisable current happenings. For instance, the two installations whose presences are surrounded by a wooden boundary similar to a packing case: the connection being the destiny of works of art that are part of a travelling show and that by being moved from one corner to another of the world inevitably become “consumer goods”. A bridge between reality and dream, Giovanni Cavazzon’s art projects the observer into a oneiric dimension without eliminating its physicality. Instead, he isolates it in a context of analytical focalisation by using tenuous shades of colour, almost monochrome, light emulsions in soft chiaroscuro and a sequence of flesh colours that bathe the portrayed subject with light. The use of coral red sometimes wraps the figure in a soft water-coloured tension in which the brush stroke fades slowly into an intensification of luminosity. |