Carlo Pecoraro

I remember it well

By Fabrizio Pizzuto

The colour Red represents fire, feelings, violence as well as the warmth
of femininity.
The colour Blue represents the calmness, the masculinity, the chill; often
blue is used to represent visually some official bureau and departments
such as the European Union, ministries, banks.
Red and blue make Purple. Purple overcomes both and transcends
everything, revealing the disappearances.
Red and blue attack the painting from the sides, they want to devour it,
they play on making it disappear. The painting shows a fragmented
image of a woman and some pieces seem missing, already swallowed.
The woman's body is in fact cut out at the sides and visually its
continuation is suggested outside the frame . The painting is eaten,
attacked or, even better, drowned…the liquid colour “wets” the real
and transforms it in itself. Red and Blue try to obtain them selves as it
happens with fire, which (as Apollinaire used to say) transforms in itself
everything that it encounters.
The image doesn’t disappear, it actually surfaces between the two, the
Red and the Blue as they comment on it and frame it. While the scene
appears visually in its atomization, we perceive it instead as a
fragmented unity, like a distant memory.
Her life is painted through daily gestures, over a background that is
contradictory, drowning into emptiness in search of transcendence, but
among full bright colours, not evanescent black and white… emptiness
here turns into a symbolic light.
The fragmented image reminds us that we are in the presence of an
underlying memory, something from the past that get shown
paradoxically in its absence, highlighting once again that absence is
indeed a consistent part of the visible real.