[Q#15] – QUO USQUE TANDEM? (IN BLOOM)
[ "Q" PROJECT ]
UNIQUE ARTWORK
> about Q15: It is the spring of 2022, April is just around the corner. Sandalwood again, cooling down my blood pressure, no anosmic daze clouding my neuronal pathways. The shades of green taste tangy afresh. My pinkie traces impasto remnants of tow-colored musings. Sinister anxiety still deregulating my heartbeats, in dissonance with the erogenous pressure points puppeteering my right hand. Beyond the organic geometry of the gold leafs scattered upon my desk, the ominous gossips of a new Quarantine turn me, once again, to Cicero’s First Catiline Oration: “Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? Quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia?” (When, O Catiline, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now?)
> more on "Q" project page: “Q” – alexandru crisan (alexandru-crisan.com).
acrylic painting on handmade paper, 96 x 64cm, 2021
> 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#15 – QUO USQUE TANDEM page: Q#15 – QUO USQUE TANDEM
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