The sign as a gesture of Ethics

True artist is always someone with more open eyes on the world, gives us a vision of reality is not trivial, but a critical rereading, a reinterpretation that poetry can sometimes be too sharp.

The Modern Art, as well as Conceptual Art, Body Art, Pop Art, etc.. Has always opened a gap between it and reality, has always marked a distance. The waiver illusionism realistic and aware of the deformation of objects have been constant for many decades now.

In this society of false myths, fast communication, through the bombing of the mass media and internet, but for the most trivial, shouting from time to nothing, there are only two ways: either to praise the "blank page" Mallarmé's education to silence, not to add more chaos to chaos, or the reinterpretation original, poetic and detached from external reality. In this big bang painting by Francesco de Marco takes on the character of an intimate conversation, the sign of individuality, of solitude and reflection.
His works evoke the "depth psychology" of Nietzsche and Freud, as we have shown that the clear and manifest psychic life often does that veil and distort the real reasons for the feelings and actions.

Behind the conscious life of man is the transparent veil of the unconscious. The themes dear to him are the female figure, the sunflowers, the landscape. Evokes the passive condition of man and machinist in a society made up only of conventions.They accentuate the dramatic aspects and the painting takes on the role of a complaint.
The painting is not "pretty", or results in key formalist or purely visual element, it is not appealing or asking consent, or to indulge aestheticism is a sign, it's color is evocative force. It is uncompromising.

His painting is both communication and language. Communication is one of a kind abstract, taken as a pretext. It is there but is rejected. The landscape is not realistic, the faces are not exactly the figures, and the Tsunami is a sinister, violent, improviser blue mark that identifies with the horror and death. Three sunflowers are both three flowers on a yellow background and a perfect abstract, perhaps deadly gear.

The crowd is a group of people, but an aggregation of masks, the review of "human types" of sadness, of awe, of ambiguity, of falsehood, the sneer, the melancholy, of which emerges, even if only a hope for mankind: a simple smile. Painting of deep introspection, also addresses "the question and the logic of the Superman", with the red circle hung or supported by a slender rod gray. The strength of the sign addresses the issue of balance and gravity, gravity, and stability with the red bottom, unstable equilibrium with the red top, depending on how each feels to hang the picture.

The color palette emphasizes the contrast, the rich articulation, lack of perspective.In other works also as "The reed" or "The Neverland", he shows a compositional and technical unparalleled happiness, for the sign and the loose coupling and strong color and the message goes far beyond the visual perception. The latest works are not looking, but found himself in deeper and then ourselves. The sign becomes material. In order not to lead to technical improvements, working with the spatula.What matters is the composition in its entirety and the ability to grasp the idea immediately and fix.

Looking through the cracks of our everyday experience, Francis de Marco shows us the gaps in our lives and moving along that thread, already traveled by van Gogh, from all over the German Expressionism, Nolde, Kirkner, Munch, Ensor, up toPollock, Fontana and the last Bacon, suggests that to get to the "Truth" and "Beauty", ethics and aesthetics, the way is also the explanation of a drama that can find their own artistic practice in its catharsis .
Is still true artist who, by the newspaper and a condition of space and time, transfers the problems of man to the highest level by giving the characters of universality and indicating those values where everyone, without distinction, and deep, we recognize.