Artwork title : "what will people say"

“WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY”

acrilic on canvas 60x90cm

East Asian (East Asia) cinema is one of the themes I use with more often in painting and to which I returned in this pandemic.. The text they write for their films is almost always expository. Where the characters introduce themselves, and formulate themselves, in a way, as senders and recipients of this text. In this case, from the paint "WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY" inspired by two films by Wong Kar-Wai (Chungking Express and In The Mood ForLove) the characters are problematic individuals, with complex relationships with the world, with others and, above all, with themselves. Language (almost never actually spoken; almost always at the level of voice over, that is, of thought and not of expression) is a way of giving meaning to your experience. Language is the means through which they seek a meaning for themselves, and this meaning – like what happens to us, in different degrees – can be based entirely on fictionality. The narrative that emerged and created from that, focused mainly on the plasticity of the image, thus plastically creating a visualimagery in another context of time, space and situation. The words/phrase written on the paint are assumed as subtitles, as a complement to the narration the narration; with or without sense (taken from another film, another story)  with the narrative represented, to buil a new storie. I like the instability of the narrative itself, where I can imagine countless interpretive resolutions, with endless  possibilities of representation. The ways of working the narrative, in any composition,  offer  me ambiguous feelings: it allows me full freedom, defined  only by the limits of the canvas, wich reassures me, forcing me, at the same time, to think  about how to integrate for figuration, chromatic blocks and abstraction coexist with each paint delivery to the surface.  Much is show, much is hidden and much is said, the insinuation  being muvh more present than the materialization/conclusion of the story, requiring an elaboration by the spectator to fill in gaps and reconstuct/interpret the painted narrative  himself.