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ARRIGO
BUTTAZZONI
Cavazzon
and Venus
“Venus”
has ancient origins and represents the goddess of love and beauty.
It is love expressed physically, through pleasure, the pleasure of
the senses before becoming a spiritual whole. She rejoices in
giving men pleasure and they do not put up any resistance.
Since
her birth she has always been a great source of creative stimulus
for many painters, sculptors, poets and musicians.
A theme
celebrated in a countless number of variations, with esthetic
solutions of the highest degree.
My friend, Giovanni
Cavazzon, is deserving of two things. First, he has stood up
excellently to the esthetic/narrative comparison with great
artists of the past. The second very important reason is that he
has achieved results: Giovanni Cavazzon has searched deep inside
himself “finding” and bringing out novel and original ways of
reprsentations, which would not be so if it had not been for his
uncompromising technical skill.
He has the ability with few
skillful strokes combined with an overall perfect layout of colour
and details to give the final effects a sense of
“accomplishment”.
And if I may add, this is indeed “very
rare” nowadays.
His Venuses, besides their otherwise known
appearance, transmit innovative sensations driven by the desire to
grasp the evolution of the female figure in its relationship with
everyday life and our times. They are able to isolate time thus
making it hieratic, expressing a sense of fourth dimensional
plasticity where they fade into images of mysteries revealed.
They
“reveal” the memory of the birth of the sensations of
existence. They are also flowers of immense beauty, whose
destinies are mirrored in the eyes of these women and mothers, who
are aware of their inevitable role.
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