Poetry and painting. Azelina Flint & Luca Macchi

From, medieval period to today

Work in progress Azelina Flint & Luca Macchi With a dance performance by the Association Bizzarria of Love Vernissage Thursday, July 10, 2014 21:00

The Association SINCRESIS opens the evening with dances by Bizzarria love and is pleased to present to the public the poetic creations of the young writer Azelina Flint came from England to stay at our house artist, together with the graphic works San Miniato painter Luca Macchi, now known in our territory, made drawing inspiration from his poems. The two artists began their dialogue set to an agreement between poetry and painting in the network, connected through the Internet, to discuss the “figures” and the suggestions that emerge from the texts and draw certain visionary images drawn directly on the pages of texts original in the exhibition. Some months ago Azelina sent its project to SINCRESIS expressing a series of reflections generated by the reading of Dante’s poetry and asking if a painter in our territory would have been able to illustrate his compositions. And ‘well begun dialogue via email between Luke and Azelina, an exchange of considerations and texts sent in English and in translation prepared by his friend Francis, who lives in Italy. The poems of Azelina Flint, which draw inspiration from stilnovisti and Vita Nova by Dante, are filled with images that are characterized as living figures between metaphor and symbol, as well as camping in the verses permeated by an atmosphere that reminds one hand the woman angel traditional intermediary between heaven and earth, and the bearer of a love based on the look, the other the new sound and the great light of his poem Dante dedicated to the heavenly journey in order to reinterpret the “sweet vision” in a modern way. Pausing to grasp the deeper meanings of pure Azelina them substantially in moods where transpires the power of passion without becoming completely “meat”, but maintaining and expressing the energy of the “burning fire” fully able to prove through the eyes of those who love and who understand the true meaning of love as emotion in the song emphasizes Dante Women have intelligence of love. In truth if the source of inspiration for the young poet could be the Vita Nova, an early work of the father of the Italian language, and the figure of the woman angel becomes the leitmotif of creation, continued his inner traits, beyond a cliché the applicant and, in addition to examining the look right in a divine apparition, beyond the earthly experience, as an intermediary between heaven and earth, able to ennoble the soul at the very moment in which gives itself to allow the process catharsis, it reveals the state of lover and beloved woman drenched in light. The search for a contact by those who love it, so as to approximate it to the ground, rather than hear it as an image surrounded by light but distant, complete; the desire to enjoy its proximity to the distance that approximates to the sky, the longing for a possible merger of looks, minds, leads to imply the presence of a “you” that is revealed as a benchmark for a relationship, why lovers as “diamonds” soaked and absorbed into the light living tension loving contact, a chest of loss, of time passing inevitable death that occludes tempers. In language rich in “figures” and precious images that stand in the way powerful flowing life, for which one image is associated with the other as the narrative of a journey that is characterized by the many heartbeats that arise from a powerful mind, while flow in the profusion of the word accents of an everyday story that happens every once in contact with the spaces of the infinite universe in search of response so as to conceive the importance of the encounter with the other as a yearning to go beyond the limits of time and history and make them eternal, by the appearance sein.

The verbal voice “seems” in Dante’s poetry between autobiography and symbol, as it raises from the vicissitudes of the here and now their ordinary, everyday, aiming at building up self, to the improvement of his soul in his “take” intent to a building process, assumes the essential meaning derived from the etymology of the Latin word “opinion” and “appear” and not look “So if we wanted to configure Beatrice, it would appear to us as the woman he loved in life and in death such as lighting, pure apperception, an ethereal form that feeds the spiritual journey of the poet and of each of us. Azelina resorts to “typical figures” own a courtly love which takes on tones of a religious meditation, directing the eye and the mind to the worship of the woman, the vain hopes of the beloved with its many facets, from love to unfulfilled feeling contrite in servitude of love, as the “madonna”, “mea dominates“, stands in contrast to the feeling of love experienced by Francesca da Rimini in the poem dedicated to the journey to the underworld, “rat s‘ learns to cor” while the full, according to the typical motif of “love and kindness” that consist in unison. Azelina attempted to renew the reasons of this process in the chest of current times, they appear the same vicissitudes, retracing gloss to gloss, stage by stage the gradualness of a route that leads to eternity indelible superhuman strength always ready to place themselves in question in the power and significance of the poetic word.

In his artistic Luca Macchi felt literally involved in reading and analyzing the compositions of Azelina, has always been involved in the pictorial and graphic, conceived as a process of building themselves, giving space in this case graphics solutions capable of enrich the texts of Azelina, which are expressed in his imagination by visions of light, colors that make the cosmic energy and breakdown bright iris, so as to proceed to the chest of poems in the composition of many “figures” graphic to track an “inner narrative“, step by step according to new solutions and consistent as genuine “variants” modern on the theme. The images drawn dialogue so completely with the words and expressions that take shape from the pen of Azelina and dilate as appearances of imagination through the pencil of Luke. Coexist, then in unison, in a perfect harmony that suggests “agreements” with the harmony of the order earthly and heavenly wanted from the divine essence, energy and motor of the universe. It seems to grasp the subtle sound of the sums rote of heaven in their imperceptible motion, so that the graceful harmony becomes sweet melody that emanates from their movement. In the union of poetry and music, as between poem and painting, writing signs minutes between “word” opera and “handwriting” pictorial in the thin fabric of chromatic passages and traces of pencil leads to aim for a continuous passage, the alternation each time to resume the journey, of references that increase the energy projected in search of themselves. This research is not new in the itinerary of Luke leading from years their creative work and which is provided with the utmost simplicity and availability to the creation of a task that does not become merely illustrative, but which stands within a path excavated daily inside themselves, always with subtle and profound lyricism. Adopt the expression “the end”, can perhaps afford to understand the “delicacy” of a plot poetry that comes from within, from our inner states and which gradually takes shape, but always to remain and persist in ‘‘ aere “of a discovery original while implying that the continuous engagement with the concreteness of the earth, can probably lead to advance beyond, to rise from the darkness to find the light. Then love is made of looks, light piercing eyes of his beloved, are nothing but cliches taken from poetry stilnovistica own to address and point the way earthly experience nonetheless looking to what can elevate off the ground and that allows reflect, to understand, to “see” beyond the physical things. Maybe that’s the clue offered by medieval poetry, like the verses of all time, and visual art, who forward to probe inside themselves to find meaning, but primarily, the acquisition of knowledge, the only, that can allow you to proceed to the “vision” as a look uncommon. Poetry, painting, the graphic can then lead to clues just to urge to take a path of contemplation that in the light of today’s world you can substantiate every time a journey of discovery and reflection, to “explore” our most aspects recondite. “It ‘s exactly the poetry- wrote a few months ago – that allows you to take a status always different, ready to discover, exploration, to modify themselves in view of a perfection never achieved, but always reachable, because the path of life calls for a “making” continuous so each destination is never the last. Then Orpheus, that often appears in the creations of Luca Macchi can talk to Beatrice to find the links of a relationship, a transition from one stage to another, from the underworld to the immensity of the sky, without ever becoming perfect wholeness and completion. And the search continues.