Mohammed Al Maamri, Attilio Forgioli - What is the element that brings these two worlds together, two generations raised under influences that are only apparently very distant, two worlds so far and yet so near?

The answer is in their common intent, their love for the search for beauty, the symbol itself of “making art”, which has the same meaning at all latitudes and all eras. A search for beauty that is not just a sterile research of an aesthetic sense, but a bridge between shadow and light, between earth and sky, between the sensitive world and the world that transcends us.

A possible research that eliminates any distance and that unites two ways of living under the same sun of two distant “deserts”, resting in the shade of the same oasis of superior beauty. Patient and silent artists, who do not talk much and yet say everything, who use few surgical and precise gestures on broad weave canvases, pausing and waiting in front of the matter that slides slowly through the thick textures, before overlapping other veiled layers of glazing, working one with oil and the other with acrylic paint, as if with a fresco. It is a slow process. Painstaking, even. A job, in fact, that extends its research in an endless succession of precise moments, a multiplication of instants during which the painting gradually grows, evolves, blossoms, bursts out like a ripe fruit on the alive surface, before withdrawing into itself and, just as gradually, consumes itself, dies out and fades away, leaving just a trace of its passage, a lump of memories with past shapes and colours on the canvas like gentle droplets of rain trickling down the surface.

 

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