NATURE REDIVIVE

There are two references to the mystical core of the concept of Nature revived: a passage from the prophet Amos (8,1.2) where a bowl of fruit is taken as an emblem of the maturation of prophetic apocalyptic times for Israel, and a famous passage of St. Paul (Letter to the Romans, 8,19-22) in which even created is associated with the dynamics of spiritual travail in tension towards universal participation in the Resurrection of Christ. If human life is spiritual gestation of a fetus that has yet to be born, Heaven, also created the, at the apex of the man who sums it up, reveals itself as progressive transformation whose target is the manifestation of perfection given by Redemption, mysteriously already operating in the immanence of things. Cosmic poles of that which is timeless Baroque drama and glory, Decline and revival, sensual and incessant cutting edge. (Gaetano Delli Santi, The generative force of the Baroque, Fabio D'Ambrosio, 2006) As the glorious body of the Risen keeps the wounds of the crucifixion as the Nature revived, manifests un'ipervitalità "engaged" in un'incelabile existential wound. The mystique of the fruit that is perfected with the detachment, ie with the death, ergo the process lies in identifying the highest recognition of another life, which is Christ / fruit that fully manifest his glory in the Cross.
Taken from the critical text “The mirror and comb. Phenomenology of an idea to look” Giacomo Maria Prati

Volume published on the occasion of the exhibition "NATURE REDIVIVE – The three kingdoms of nature in Italian and Nordic still life”, edited by James Meadows Mary and Paul Lesino in collaboration with Giorgio Lodetti and John Serafini: 20 November 2011 – 29 January 2012 | PALACE GUIDOBONO, Tortona