FUTURE

MARIA PENNINO
FUTURE, 2020
oil on canvas
120x80 cm
year 2020.
Born during the Covid period, it represents a young woman's uncertainty as she faces her upcoming wedding, her shoe untied, on the floor, the curtains hiding reality, and the willpower to move forward, clutching her wedding dress and looking proudly to the future. (The transience of life)
Description
Easter 2020... on TV, a man dressed in white walks across a deserted and surreal St. Peter's Square, a profound sadness and a sense of loss in an apocalyptic scenario: darkness, rain, silence. The if and when have replaced certainties, and the only certainty has become one: the loss of freedom. The centrality of man has declined, the ego draws strength from the "we," the other is missing. In this scenario, silence has suppressed the noise, that deafening, invasive, redundant noise, now a friend.
During lockdown, building the hypothesis of an idea... impossible! All that's left is us and the sound of our hearts!
This painting of mine was born from the idea of ​​the sound of the heart... I began to draw a woman's face, pensive... then the painting was defined in detail, one by one, with its own meaning.
Despite the weight of things, Futura looks ahead and her gaze seems to follow a thought: what will her future be?
Certainly not and not only in that white dress she holds tightly to herself, but certainly in the self-denial and sacrifice with which she built her being.
Why Futura? The name Futura was born because, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was created to give hope to those young people who seemed to have lost their joy in life. A pandemic won't clip your wings! Courage, Futura...in this silence, only the beat of your heart can be heard!

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