SOLVE ET COAGULA [Davide Barabino: Art and Archetype]

«Acting the Solve et Coagula we enter the deep mystery of raw material hanging up the close core again » and that is the way D.B. works to make his light’s stiffs a vox media: all is poison, all is solution. At the same time. By full/empty spaces, by light/dark side effects the primary colours rule. Next to Archetype, next to Alchemy: the Whole, One and many-sided, drew ab origine, drew by new media – to serve the Ancient Man. The Art of Barabino is building up the best masters, thus far off the modern manner [his digital art is outlying]. Eternity is expressing with no nostalgic mood: a cleansing wedding by senses by stresses. The Scanner is always a Sign: the Show is inwardly, apart from the stage. The trace is treating the cause.

Feast and Fury at once: we can see the sound’s philosophy. We must feel the meaning of this playing card, of this identity card: the Hanged Man of Tarot is Every Man.

One eye sees, the other feels (Paul Klee)

D.B. makes merry the Magic by focusing: the view is a mix worked by fire, to smelt with fire all the meat set on fire. That’s why meatmandala is a meeting [prompted by the similar sounding: meat/meet]. Prints are spreading blood, prints are blood went harden, prints are the collective colour. By Blake’s blush as by Contrast’s charge we clearly could cherish the Soul’s marks in these works. The same marks we stand. The same scars. The same.

Only he is an artist who can make a riddle out of a solution (Karl Kraus)

Can Containers configure Contents? the broken body is a screech set up by sections, an amphibian autopsy: limbs & lampoons. Tears of faces with shred of bowels. We live the blast-off just like goners: the physique is a cold truth, a roasting grave. The Cut on the canvas – is: the post mortem cut. By thin day-deaths, by bulky packed-planets, by unseen seats: Human (All Too Human) is naked. .A lunch we wear out. X-Rays to dig in, to dig inner the portrait of Dorian Gray: this is the inside feature of solid figures. We are sketches with no title, no name we are. We have to be better, we have to know now, first of all, before sticking with «who is who».

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see (Edgard Degas)

Rightness is round. The sparkler sphere is by pupil’s palms: eyeprint is the primary part’s praise – the first sight [and the second eye/I: the subject that sees]. Iris has finger-prints, wisdom is the web to hold the out of sight symbol. The fluid forms at hand are a watering fluxus, just like the real root of get-up-and-go. We surely can call nervous stimulus this playacting: one out-and-out ring where wise waves of colours and contours mix up phos plus psuchê.

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely. (Hugo Von Hoffmannsthal)

The work/worked out is to be conducive to breadth/breath in all cases. Barabino gives life to stronghold by beam by bulk: bodyvision is the combination where action (body) is analysis (vision) by clefts on its owns (body-division). Mercury is the matter, mercury is the mild metal moving: it brings to mind the Generated Paintings of Michael Noll. The Technique and the Technology tell the Taste and the Thought. Space is the place: blood plasma mould the mood.

Today is the great day of one of the revelations of this world. The interrelationships of these individual realms were illumined as by a flash of lightning; they burst unexpected, frightening, and joyous out of the darkness. Never were they so strongly tied together and never so sharply divided... (Vasilij Kandinskij)

A white wallop to feed, a white wallop as food: images is the first person (can you see the puzzling «I’m» – in Images?) turning on the first feathery. Rush is to point the «lighthouse that tears the hidden heavens out of dark’s hands ». Rush is to scream/to stream: «mehr licht! ». Light like water is a wannabe weir: influence ‘n’ affluent. A different way to digital flair: lives as leaves are loud-looking. The picky “double bind” given by pixel by pathos – is a personal perspective: Barabino conceals to reveal, he speaks out to screen on. Unwitting is unhurried, utter is under. All is Amid, Hereafter is Here.

[Chiara Daino]