Marco Eusepi

A constantly changing “hortus conclusus”, an energetic and metaphorical space where nature and human action are central. Marco Eusepi's work in competition, entitled Frame (Garden), is a compendium of his research, focused on nature and its symbolic implications. The painting has no realistic or mimetic pretensions; flowers and leaves are merely hinted at, they do not develop in time and space. Rather, in the artist's intentions, it is a still image, a frame, of a transformation in progress. 'I am not interested in providing a single interpretation of the work: the painting may arise from a suggestion, a memory, something intimate and personal, but then it asks the observer to participate actively, to listen and give their own interpretation'. Eusepi himself stands as an observer in front of his finished work and, he explains, 'I find myself making unexpected discoveries, which emerge like ‘karst rivers’. For example, one of the most emblematic scenes from Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point came to mind, the final explosion, and I found an analogy on an aesthetic and compositional level: a de-agglomeration of matter that seems to be in progress but at the same time is also frozen." And so the painting becomes a testimony to the condition of human existence, its transience and precariousness.

Fabiana Fruscella