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2000 / No more confusion, now you're objective
2000
Islands and mountains become central elements in Marescalchi's work, but only when connected to specific human experiences. In these years, with a now-refined technique, even numbers become more precise, consolidating their role within his visual language. New subjects enter his works: forests, skulls, scissors, and some portraits. It is during this period that he also creates his first and only sculptures.
Regarding the relationship between numbers and landscape, Giovan Battista Salerno writes:
"This still does not resolve our strabismus: if we see a beautiful landscape, we say it looks painted, and if we see a beautiful painting, we say it looks real.
A magic square, for example, may perhaps interrupt the ticking of this paradox. Used as a crosshair over the mountain, numbers are not figurative. Even though the Pythagorean Tetractys is a triangle and the Fibonacci series a spiral, they are too real to have problems with verisimilitude.
Thus, the number says to the painted mountain: 'No more confusion, now you are objective.' The mountain replies: 'Since you care, thank you.'"
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