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Sac. Josè Pacheco
wrote in 2000:
A priest’s erotic dreams.
1. Adam, driven out of
Paradise, crushed by the shame of his no longer innocent
nakedness? Or an unborn adult child forever in the form of the
foetus? Dark in his unnamed suffering he lacks the helpmate
promised by the creator. Incurable solitude or expectation still
full of promise? His gaze everywhere, in the centre, to the
ample covering where he seeks (and finds?) refuge.
2. “A priest’s erotic dreams” reveals the artist. The priest who
looks, sees, sees himself, assents and is moved by this
‘compassion’ found so unexpectedly. In his last years Roland
Barthes spoke of compassion as the distinctive mark of the
purest form of literature. And Simon Well considered that in all
fields the highest artistic forms have in common the ability,
through the grace of pity, to render beautiful and bearable the
horror of suffering and misfortune.
3. God the creator
forms man from the earth. Thus the artist Caputo da Roma,
forming these shapes with his creative hands. The importance of
the colour of the various colours,and their harmonious
contrasts.Fire purifies,consolidates and renders the whole
authentic. It makes each piece an original, ‘unicum’.
The validity of a work of art is measured by time: like an
unfailing source it may be seen a thousand times. Like these
pieces made from the earth, worked by the hands of the artist
and consolidated by fire. |