The Labyrinth

     

"... the theme of Antonella Cappuccio's works is the Labyrinth, according to the semantics of the verb errare : to wander/to be wrong ..."

 "  ...the assembled canvases create an hortus apertus (paradise/parudeisos =garden) ..."    

  "... the Labyrinth is the bewildering path created by the different images ..."

"....other works (the Tondi) are revolving, and this movement makes the picture's parts visible/enjoyable ..."

              

"...the movement of the watcher going, revolving, uniting, and so on..."

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    Critical notes by di Antonella Cappuccio

 

  "...another work is the feminine anthology, fifteen portraits of famous and unknown women, all of them united in a single picture..."

"...the words of a Sappho's poem are the thread that unite them..."

                                              

"...then a long strip (30x240 cm.) ... the theme is an arrow's trajectory going backwards, like memory. The painting is to be read from right to left..."

"  ... these paintings refer to many experience in art history, from past and present (from Luca Pacioli to Pontormo, Yves Klein, Herman Nitsch..."