"There is something in art, as in fact in nature, that reassures us and something on the other hand that torments us, that disturbs us. A green meadow full of flowers or a clear blue sky without clouds calms us; the stillness of a lake or the violence of a storm disturbs us. The beauty of a greek statue – a Fidia or the Venus de Milo – calms us; Friedrich’s Der Mönch discomfits us, alone before the immensity of the sea. Two eternal feelings in eternal struggle: the search for order and the fascination with chaos; man abides within this struggle, we all live in it, order and disorder. We look for rules and regularities, forms, canons but we never grasp the real functioning of the world, the real form of all that is outside us and all that is within us and this for man is an eternal mystery… our incapacity to resolve this mystery terrorises us, forces us to oscillate between the search for an impossible harmony and abandonment to chaos…"
Il rosso e il blu, 2012
