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After seasons of minimalism, of painstaking search for the essential, of
understatement and synthesis, the latest trend becomes official: haunting the most sinister and shady contexts. The antique delabré effect exorcises
the fear of what is to come. There is nothing new in this - there was once before
a gothic revival in England around the middle of the XVIII century - nowadays
we are still combining the same elements, albeit differently.
Fear and time remain central themes; by dealing with what most frightens us,
obscurity and ugliness, by rejecting those concepts dear to the advertising
world, such as health, beauty, youthfulness, we believe we are talking about
spirituality; we seem to do this |
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by offering unsettling images which stimulate
the unconscious, images which seem to derive from the yellowing pages of old
books, charred by some ancient stake.
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