Onishi Gallery is pleased to announce “heart”, an international exhibition curated by Stefania Carrozzini, featuring fifteen artists, most based in Italy.
The heart is the center of our being. The West has made it into the origin of our feelings and passion, quite the opposite of traditional cultures, which place intelligence and intuition there instead. However, within the heart dwells the Soul. Its movement (systole and diastole), also makes it the symbol of the double movement of expansion and re-absorption of the Universe.
However, artistic creation is a vital necessity. Art is the heart of life, a center of propulsion which eliminates all borders and diversity. Art is the fire which transforms, creates and destroys. This process happens in the heart of the void, or rather, in the spirit, because in the apparent void there is a pulsating, eternal energy…one which never dies out.
One can give a vision to the absence of matter, as Yves Klein did, and through the experience of the void feel the racing heart of life, which is spiritual. Artists create never ending worlds in space and time. They draw energy from the immaterial, in which everything already exists and is continually recreated. Symbols, enigmas and messages flow in and out of the heart—chaos become order and order is part of chaos. The heart as a symbol offers a transcendental reality which is also that of the mystic, the prophet, the artist.
Today the excess of display and image can provoke a short circuit, a “stroke”, a creative heart attack, which is, perhaps, why some artists camouflage themselves. Art starts close to invisibility, encompassing the virtual world, new thresholds of living—with the obsession of understanding where the heart of life beats. It is the eternal game of the imagination, a vehicle of sensitivity: Plato wrote, “The artist creates dreams for those who are awake”. The immense force of cosmic energy has as its engine the heart of creation. The heart is the poetic place of inspiration, encounter, decision and truth. In the incessant movement of life, beats the planetary heart, to which we all belong.
