by Hagea

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Window

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Window is a spectacular vision unveiled by a huge reflective metallic curtain, which occupies half of the picture plan. Paradoxical in its unusual appearance, this metallic silk curtain opens up the picture’s stage like a dream. The vision is the other half of the picture, but one could say that the whole picture is the window in which a Venetian vista is revealed. Here is the usual romantic bridge, the gondola. But what really catches the eye like a magnet is the enigmatic body of the lady in crimson in the foreground – a rubicund vision amplified and reverberated in the reflective squares of the folded curtain. Carmine highlights pierce the metal, intensifying the magic view of this passionate body. Indeed, her sanguine dress evokes the whole pathos which makes her gaze languish, her lips move with sensual desire. She holds at bay the Venetian passion, she is a figure of love, death, and fluid desire. It might be interesting to note also that in this dreamy and spectacular composition, the reflective surface of the metallic curtain meets the liquid of the canal – as if in a chimerical vision. It is in this cone of vision and encounter between these two impossibilities that the lady’s body seems to originate, herself a liquefied erotic vision. Like a nymph, her enigmatic body comes out from the waters. Masked by a black lace, half sfumatto, her face emerges from the mist of the canal, making her apparition even more mysterious. Venice is no doubt the most enigmatic place, the place where the gaze must be disguised and where the bodies become theatrical, the magic space, indeed, where any place becomes the stage for a pathetic drama. (Text by Nicoletta Isar, VICTOR HAGEA AMAZING ART ISBN 13: 9789189685239)

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