Turning point, Haiku of Basho, 2013
Giorgos Seferis 1970, «Exercises Book B΄» (First edition 1976, Ikaros pubblishing company)
Byzantine technique, 55 x 110. Weight : 2 kg.
Materials : Wood and carbon.
1963 – 2013, 50 years from the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Giorgos Seferis.
It is made by poor materials, as wood and carbon.
An art that in past was often created by though imperial commisions, today, can also use common materials as in 'arte povera', without loosing its dynamism, its energy, its psychological aspect.
Turning point : One material in two phases of its life: Logos (wooden tesserae) emerges through, a bleak burnt(charcoal tesserae) landscape.
The poem "Haiku of Basho" of Giorgos Seferis was written in 1970, an era of tyranny in Greece, with a strong need for freedom. As a tribute to the Japanese poet Basho, who first lifted the form Haiku in Poetry.
This mosaic-poem is made by poor materials, as wood and carbon.
An art that in past was often created by though imperial commisions, today, can also use common materials as in 'arte povera', without loosing its dynamism, its energy, its psychological aspect.
[Farce of Fate:
Beneath the helmet speaketh
a cricket.]
Byzantine technique, 55 x 110. Weight : 2 kg.
Materials : Wood and carbon.
1963 – 2013, 50 years from the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Giorgos Seferis.
It is made by poor materials, as wood and carbon.
An art that in past was often created by though imperial commisions, today, can also use common materials as in 'arte povera', without loosing its dynamism, its energy, its psychological aspect.
Turning point : One material in two phases of its life: Logos (wooden tesserae) emerges through, a bleak burnt(charcoal tesserae) landscape.
The poem "Haiku of Basho" of Giorgos Seferis was written in 1970, an era of tyranny in Greece, with a strong need for freedom. As a tribute to the Japanese poet Basho, who first lifted the form Haiku in Poetry.
This mosaic-poem is made by poor materials, as wood and carbon.
An art that in past was often created by though imperial commisions, today, can also use common materials as in 'arte povera', without loosing its dynamism, its energy, its psychological aspect.
[Farce of Fate:
Beneath the helmet speaketh
a cricket.]