PEACE?

Just a couple of months ago I made two works – from the series of impermanent sculptures – that were apparently completely unrelated to any state of facts.

Both of them were verses from poems that I materialized by modeling them in materials that were easy to decompose while in nature.

The first one said: IN THE WHITE DRESS OF DISCORD

It has its source in the image of the painting of Douanier Rousseau – War (1894).

I wrote first a poem, called Fear - On the Museum’s Floor. It dealt with our angst that can materialize, but we hope that can never be acted upon. The poem spoke about an imaginary sight of the war, as it was evoked by Rousseau’s painting.

IN ROCHIA ALBA A DISCORDIEI/ IN THE WHITE DRESS OF DISCORD - modeling clay, 2021

The second work said: WE WILL IMPOSE THE PEACE

It was the title of another poem that had its source into a propaganda poster from 1947. The text was made from sugar. It melted in snow and rain.

VOM IMPUNE PACEA / WE WILL IMPOSE THE PEACE - sugar and thread, 2021

VOM IMPUNE PACEA/WE WILL IMPOSE THE PEACE, sugar and thread, 2021