THE FAIRY-LIKE ALLEGORY OF LIFE One of various peculiar aspects of Simonetta Carpini's artistic personality seems to be particularly conspicuous: her intrinsic ability to synthesize, reconcile and blend together dreamlike images and enchanted characters, result of her fertile and unblemished imagination, with the contingent reality. The sceneries in which her figures move seem to belong to all times simultaneously and yet not to be fully chronologically placeable. The whole pictorial universe of this florentine painter revolves around a plethora of inventions and creations also serving as a pretext for an invitation to the perusal of a tale designed to stimulate and engross the observer's fantasy and incite his participation. Perhaps actually the protagonists of her paintings ( cardboard horses, her masks, her cats and her lovers…), apparently simple and mellow, are there to conceal, as a sort of discreet curtain, the flaws (or maybe the joys) of our existence. Images that drive us gently in the direction of a "rediscovery" of motivations and reflections which might encourage a more thorough evaluation of the world that surrounds us; a sort of ludic prayer directed to favour the recovery of "the true values of life". |
