Franco Paisio
Not Beyond the Visual14th August - 4th September 2002
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While you were dancing
Acrylic on poly-cotton
137 x 122 cm
- The whirling perfume of Autumn
Acrylic on poly-cotton
137 x 122 cm
- Red madrigal for a goddess
Acrylic on poly-cotton
112 x 107 cm
- The laughter of a Muse
Acrylic on poly-cotton
112 x 107 cm
- A little pink for Liz
Acrylic on poly-cotton
102 x 91 cm
- So much depends upon ...
Acrylic on poly-cotton
102 x 91 cm
- Just passing through
Acrylic on poly-cotton
102 x 91 cm
- Evening thick with smoke-clouds
Acrylic on poly-cotton
46 x 35 cm
- Into a propitious wind
Acrylic on poly-cotton
46 x 35 cm
- Into an adverse wind
Acrylic on poly-cotton
46 x 35 cm
- A little joy, only just perceived
Acrylic on poly-cotton
46 x 35 cm
- Sous la hache du bourreau
Acrylic on poly-cotton
41 x 30 cm
- Anticipating evening
Acrylic on poly-cotton
41 x 30 cm
- Light filled with indecisions
Acrylic on poly-cotton
41 x 30 cm
- This is what you wanted to see
Acrylic on poly-cotton
41 x 30 cm
Brief Notes on "Not Beyond The Visual"
I call this exhibition 'Not Beyond The Visual' mainly because I believe that all visual things,
objects, trees, stones, paintings etc. should always be accepted for what they are, for what they
appear to be. If possible, I would like my viewer not to read between the lines, or in this case,
between the brush strokes. I would like the viewer to be a witness, not an interpreter of my abstracts.
Heptalogue of random thoughts about the exhibition:
- To look at any of my canvases, one should ideally pay attention to what is, just as it is.
- My paintings do not try to mean but simply to be.
- I believe that presence precedes essence.
- Nothing exists besides existence itself.
- Poetry and spirituality are not hidden behind what is, but they are a state of being, a state of existing.
- A poetical or a spiritual life is an intuitive life, at ease with the world of things that are, not with a world of make believe.
- Beauty, tranquillity and joy come from the knowledge of things real, not from the obstinate search for what is not, and can never possibly be.
- Franco Paisio
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