Man created from nothing,

visible, inseparable,

perhaps it was only a dream,

that of piercing the darkness

deeper.

Reggio Emilia, 3.02.2025

“The Divine beyond the Real” – Dialogue between Creation and the Void

The work The Divine beyond the Real presents itself as a reflection on the tension between the visible and the invisible, between matter and spirit. The reference to Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam is evident in the suspended hand, a human fragment that seems to be waiting for a touch to breathe life into it. However, here the scene is not fulfilled in the contact, but remains suspended in a dimension of absence and potentiality.

The large wooden frame, which delimits an apparently empty space, amplifies the feeling of waiting and mystery. The hand, fragile and incomplete, appears suspended in nothingness, bound by thin threads that connect it to an unknown point. Copper and Scottish thread suggest a link between corporeity and transcendence, between matter and spirit, while light and shadows play a fundamental role, creating a dialogue between physical presence and the evanescence of the divine.

The artist’s poetry deepens this concept, evoking a sense of origin and existential precariousness: “Man created from nothing, visible, inseparable, perhaps it was only a dream, that of piercing the deepest darkness.” The dream of creation thus becomes the human attempt to pierce the darkness of the unknown, to seek contact with the sacred in a universe that seems to elude all certainty.

The work does not offer answers, but invites a meditation on the human condition: we are creatures poised between the concrete and the impalpable, between the real and the transcendent, in perpetual search for a link with what has generated us.

C. Mottola

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