“ENDING”: a corpus of pictorial works started by Paolo Consorti in 2018 which summarizes his path of visual experimentation.

The canvases condense different processes, in a sort of contemporary alchemy, which translates a mental vision into distinct and interpenetrated layers. In the deepest layer, distant visual memories of a known and intimately familiar nature attribute to the works a synthesis based on a universal depth. The surface, on the other hand, is enveloping and unstable, a concrete and tangible natural dynamism translated into an abstraction from geological features.

The contrast between the two registers is clear but is recomposed in the beauty of a painting that aspires to a contemporary classicism.
In the project entitled “Ending” and presented at the Gagliardi and Domke Gallery in Turin, painting tells of itself and the tormented relationship between man and nature by staging almost a melee.
Different times, and different levels of awareness. An internal and mental time that is almost immobile and non-human, and a dynamic and overwhelming time.
A dialectic that opens up to the search for an increasingly precarious and unstable balance, an aesthetic that prefigures the drama and that combines the charm of catastrophe with the traces of a utopian memory.

No solutions seem to appear except in a temporary beauty or in the awareness of being beyond.