Professor Onelio Onofrio Francioso (journalist, writer, sociologist, jurist)

The computable strength of the incommensurate spirit

Suddenly, the destiny granted me the chance to reach a contemplative state in front of the paintings of Giuseppe Siniscalchi. I believe to have found there the answers to some of the questions that haunt me since when, as an instinctive user, I approached art for the first time. I always wondered: “What is art? Who is the artist?” Better than in the words or writings of many experts and academics, I found in Giuseppe’s paintings a revitalizing effect. The artist is no eccentric bohemian, rather he is simply a sensitive human being, that cannot avoid lightning up when a sudden creative force invades him. Giuseppe’s works are all outside of a temporal frame, they recall our most archaic perceptions. Prehistoric Graffiti prove that creativity and curiosity stem from a candid openness to life. My first impressions were these: in these paintings I found the genuineness of a simple, candid, frank spirit, nostalgically expressing itself. A spirit touched by its own feelings, brought as an eternal and pedagogical witness for the primordial unconsciousness. Repealing all the evil forces of the complexity our time, here we find the pure desire of straightforward communication. Giuseppe Siniscalchi is outside of any interpretative scheme. His work lives as a witness of the divine immanence of the creative emotion and its transmission, in world ruled by total serenity. His spontaneous search for the simplest and yet most mysterious divine order, far away from the complexities with which we, as humans, fill our everyday reality, in an attempt to substitute our world to the divine revelation. In Giuseppe’s touch and colours we instead find a total respect and thanksgiving to the Eternal, an entity always promising intense emotions for our future, which we may already live in nostalgic waiting. His works cannot be framed, because they strive for infinity and perfect stillness, in a message of complete peace. Art denies every barrier in space and time, it is able to touch the heart, mind and soul of everybody, everywhere. Art instils joy without offence: it is the thanksgiving of humility in full respect of sacredness, the desire of a dust grain aspiring to leave a sign of love for eternal life. Art reflects dreams in a concrete (although extremely delicate) mirror, offering men his only possible redemption. All these considerations came to me through the ennoblement of my soul that Giuseppe’s paintings have made possible.

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