" Giano "
"Oil on canvas 150 x180 cm"
"Giano" is one of the most ancient Roman divinities, he is the protector of the beginnings and the passages.
In a place outside of time, all the fears of a man who tries to define himself materialize.
It is a picture made up of contrasting elements that, in an extreme synthesis, try to find peace between them.
Each perspective line leads to the heart of the painting, in the center of which is depicted a person carried by the hand of a little girl indicating a path. "Always look for it with your baby eyes" is an inscription hidden in the clouds which means that to find serenity, whatever is the road we are following or the research we are doing, we must abandon all the mental superstructures that have formed in the our heads growing up and then start looking at things again without mental constraints, just like children would. The figure dressed in red, pointing the way, is symbolic and she represents the childhood of the protagonist of the painting.
In the center, wrapping the two figures, there is a clock with Roman numerals, in fading, marking the life that passes. But even in this element is hidden a contrasting writing repeated several times that reads: "Fear not". The inscription comes as a warning not to be intimidated by the passing of the years, by the hurry to achieve something with the fear of not succeeding. It is an exhortation to give value and quality to everyday life without thinking of the past and the future.
At the foot of the building on the right there is written "Faith", understood as that inner part that leads us to hope and believe in something, even if considered impossible. On the facade of the building on the left, at the top, appears the word "Knowledge" which is understood as that sum of notions and experiences that give self-awareness and the surrounding world. These two buildings, ideally opposite, actually act as perspective fifths and they witness the ambivalence and indecision that often accompanies people in life.
The two white and lunar souls represent these two concepts and they were left behind, in the path, because the journey will have to be experienced as the synthesis of all these human factors.