Metaphors

The Metaphors section gathers a phase of Antonio Sorrentino's practice in which painting builds meaning through symbolic images, visual allegories and strongly evocative figures. In these works, the canvas does not merely represent a subject; it stages a concept: time, deception, passion, desire and their ambiguities are translated into images dense with signs, juxtapositions and symbolic shifts. This research precedes or accompanies the development of the abstract works and helps clarify some of their deeper roots. If, in the Abstracts, meaning tends to emerge through subtraction, trace and absence, in these figurative works meaning is instead organized as explicit allegory. The language is more narrative and symbolic, yet it already contains a strong tension between the visible and the invisible, between what appears and what the image actually conceals.