Denis Argenterio
Paintings, mixed technique on board
"Partitura - Dialogo" and "Partitura - Strati": two scores by Denis Argenterio, composed in pictorial language.
"Duet" by Steve Reich and "The Unanswered Question II" by Charles E. Ives, revisited and then closed like a casket in their elegant architecture, open out to the viewer in a tripartite combination that feels almost sacred: a trinity, a pure vision of the essential.
Crystalline notes on the surface of sky and earth wash over us like a Hokusai wave. We are left at the mercy of existence’s uncertainty.
To whom will we return?
"... So in this immensity, do my thoughts drown; and shipwreck is sweet in this sea."
(“The Infinite” - Giacomo Leopardi).
Guido Azzalin
Translation by Amie Robin Weiss
from Charles Ives "The Unanswered Question II"
from Steve Reich "Duet" for two violins