In the dream
Alessandro Tofanelli
The poet Derek Walcott stated that "islands can only exist if we have loved there". Without a deep and personal connection, an island remains just a physical place, a piece of land surrounded by water, without a true soul. Its existence would in this way be limited to its material presence alone, without acquiring a profound meaning or an emotional dimension; like a place that doesn't really live, because it isn't permeated by the experiences and emotions that make it unique for those who live there or visit it with affection. The island thus becomes a simple space, devoid of that breath that only human bonds and emotional experiences can give it. The islands of Alessandro Tofanelli are places in which the painter certainly loved and through which he expresses his interior landscape of the soul, now rooted in memory and brought to mind through the filter of his sensitivity. They are environments in which time seems to have stopped and where the human presence is evoked through commonly used objects: tables, chairs, a bicycle leaning against a tree, a rowing boat abandoned in complete solitude, an old Volkswagen Beetle, objects, which Tofanelli seems to have saved them from the risk of disappearing, collecting them and protecting them like precious works in a timeless museum. These places, where nature is queen, are surrounded by calm, metaphysics and perfect balance, preserved for the future, evoking a feeling of nostalgia and protection.
© Azzurra Tofanelli
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