Siegmund Angyal

"Do not copy too much from life - wrote Gauguin - art is an abstraction (...) think more about creation than about the result". Synthetic painting does not dwell – as happens in the works of academics – on details, shadows and all those artifices aimed at giving the illusion of truth. Instead, the painter wants to offer an essence of his vision, a concentrate of reality reworked in a mythical key Furthermore, if Impressionism had focused on the fleeting instant, the poetics of Gauguin and other post-impressionists seek the metaphysical dilation of time, eternity; not the representation of the ephemeral perception of nature, but the symbolic and mythical representation of man's ancestral relationship with nature. An art therefore that seeks to go beyond the visible, to draw on the foundation that underlies the reality of things. Rejecting the rules of traditional painting, and then of Impressionism, Gauguin continues to create his own individual style. The flat space, the rhythmic repetition of lines and shapes and the pure colors applied in large masses combine to create a highly decorative effect. With his synthesis of color and sign, he gives life to an art free from schemes and rules, finally in tune with the most primitive and authentic part of himself. The interpretation of this thought emerges in the work of Siegmund Angyal, "Sour" which immediately brings to mind the ideals of Gaugain. An allegory in which each element has its own symbolic meaning and all together form a story whose meaning the viewer can understand. Here we are faced with a complex vision, made up of overlapping and intertwined sensations of time, space, color and music. Rather than forcing it into an interpretative scheme, the best attitude in front of this painting is to let yourself be captured by its evocative power, made up of silence, mystery and movement.

Art Curator Federica D'Avanzo