‘“The world is an illusion, but it is an illusion we must take seriously, because it is as real as it
goes, and in those aspects of reality which we are capable of comprehending.”
[Aldous Huxley]
Passages is an ambient installation project made up of six paintings by the two artists
Hemingway and Mazzi. The spatial arrangement of the works is centered upon the shared
theme–immersion through the brushing of the canvas-body. The works displayed upon iron
structures, specially designed for the project, by various forms and modes deal with the theme
of the anti-image figure, so much so that we might speak of an anti-figure. Painting here
exposes herself and in this inevitable self-exposing she is compelled to lay herself bare.
Vision pushes itself past the possible and opens itself to new forms of com-prehension elevating
our capacity to understand the spirit of things. Painting, once more as in other fundamental
moments of her history, forces and breaks down barriers in order to make herself living flesh
dancing upon the peaks of the world.
