Children Cycle — Antonio Sorrentino
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Children Cycle

Three abstract works in which the child figure emerges as a partial imprint suspended between memory, appearance and dissolution.

Children Cycle — Cycle Cover Image

Critical Text

The Children cycle brings together works in which the child figure emerges as a partial presence, never fully stabilized. The body is not described but evoked through white lines, chromatic cavities and fragments of gesture that suggest a form in the process of emergence. The grey ground acts as a deposit and a space of memory; reds, yellows and blacks interrupt this surface with impulses that make the figure unstable, vulnerable and intermittent. The result is a painting in which absence does not negate presence, but makes it perceptible as imprint, gap and tension. In this sense, the cycle can be linked to the casts of Pompeii and to a semiotic reflection close to Greimas and Eco, where emptiness is not a simple lack but a generative device of meaning.

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