[Q#2] – “…QUAECUMQUE SUNT VERA…”
[ "Q" PROJECT ]
UNIQUE ARTWORK
> about Q2: “…quaecumque sunt vera…”:This is an “acrylic EKG” on a sheet of paper as heavy as, allegedly, 7% of my soul. It is a work toned down by the inception of a Quarantine, while sharpened by a scared anamnesis of previous attempts to chromatically explore the ontology of the self. This is, in fact a freeze-frame that pinpoints the very moment when a reluctantly parleyed “cordon sanitaire” turned into an aloof “cordon solitaire”. It is meant to be “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” of an identity crisis, a psychoanalytic pangram comprising every single letter used to spell out the consciousness of finitude. Most surprisingly for an agnostic, the title of this work comes from Philippians 4:8 (KJV): “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true (quaecumque sunt vera), whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things”.
> more on "Q" project page: “Q” – alexandru crisan (alexandru-crisan.com).
acrylic painting on paper, diptych, 102 x 72cm, 2020
> Q project: “Qualis artifex pereo…” If ever there is a germane moment in an artist’s life to take Nero, the fifth Emperor of Rome, seriously, and, consequently, to try to correctly translate his words, it is precisely during a pandemic! These are works created between December 2019 and August 2021. They are the offspring of a “cordon sanitaire” that challenged my cloistered creative impulses to the brink of burnout. On the sunny side of the process, my decade-long interest in a multifaceted abstract expressionism was nurtured by the “cordon solitaire” that the COVID-19 “Q”uarantine imposed upon me. I think that, for any artist, obsession is coherence, even more so when his senses are under siege. My own coherence was driven by a documentarian impulse coupled with an identity reconstruction: you are “reading”, in fact, selected pages from an “acrylic journal”, warts and all… Incidentally, I’ve always thought that reading between the lines, no matter how blurred their askew edges, is the key to immersive empathic analogies – especially when it comes to lyrical abstractions that connect egos and souls.
> Q#02 – QUAECUMQUE SUNT VERA page: Q#02 – QUAECUMQUE SUNT VERA
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