HOPERAPERTA

Maurizio Barberis

The Altereted light in a wildsome landscape

Basel- Galerie Eulenspiegel

Small sculptures, photographs, paintings and drawings lend themselves to a narration involving that part of our spirit that borders on worlds expressing deeper levels of knowledge, where the Landscape becomes the mythical place where space and time cease to exist, a place of in nite extension even though it is smaller than a mustard seed, a place that, like Pascal’s Sphere,
is everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

A horizontal line, a horizon that not only separates perceptually the sky from the earth, but also separates the ordered sequence of the various instants of time that follow one another from left to right, is intertwined with a vertical horizon,
de ning an imaginary time that opens up the possible existence of a parallel world, symmetrical to ours, but substantially inverted, a world that can only be reached through death or clairvoyance.

A real world, albeit a product of our imagination. An imaginary earth, a hell or a paradise, a concrete form of our mind.Light, courtesan of the soul, embodies its feelings and aspirations of immateriality, pure energy, eternal in itself, symbol of immortality. The light of the blind, who see only through the mind, the last glimpse of light on the deathbed,
replicated in the immediate passage into the afterlife, as the sacred books of Buddhism tell us.

Mehr Licht oder mehr nicht?

And the landscape? Always Wild Country. Landscape as a fold, landscapes that turn upside down like a glove.
Spaces or forms that stand at the intersection of two directions, at the rhizomatic point where the two main axes meet.
The fold thus becomes a point of transition of form into landscape, of its transformation into threshold, an element of problematic crossing, a formal emergence that poses a problem of discontinuity within a fabric that connects places whose forms are alterations of our nervous system.