Still waves

A singular, two-faced landscape unfolds before our eyes: Roberto Mendicino's canvas "Onde immobili" (Immovable Waves) highlights both desert and marine elements, as the composition evokes the intermingling of land and sea. The desert seems to coexist with the seemingly static undulating motion of sand dunes, whose shape resembles waves swollen by sea currents and wind. They take on hues that mirror those of the sky, where the wispy clouds are tinged with the colors of sunset. The chromatic choice of certain sections of the painting suggests an artistic evolution compared to the artist's previous works. In this work, he tends to exude a new, enveloping, evocative dimension, dense with nuances of color that invite us to embrace an absolute place, in which ideal, still waves are, perhaps, the essence of the eternal moment, the magical instant that freezes time and space, along the traces of the indefinite and the eternal. The ideal, incessant perpetuation of the waves, which here appear crystallized in a sort of enchantment, becomes a moment of reflection and, at the same time, an opportunity to evoke the fieri, that becoming from which man cannot escape and which allows us to grasp the entire precarious condition belonging to humankind, fragile creatures similar to leaves or slender reeds subjected to the elements. Those brushstrokes of red, which convey the idea of ​​a desert land or a broad horizon line, or even a sort of barrier or wall to be crossed, to yearn for the vault of the sky so multifaceted by chromatic gradations, represent the dividing line between the celestial vault and the mounds of sand conceived as ideal waves; however, while presenting themselves as a limit to be crossed, they translate into a conduit that enhances the correspondence between the ethereal and the earthly elements, so evocative for the nuances ready to evoke a sense of harmony and a calm yearning for serenity. The landscape view is pervaded by a suspended atmosphere that induces the search for peace and instills a desire for inner balance.
The appearance of still waves is a reference to the contemplation of a place of the soul, which encapsulates a state of the self, still and awaiting something wrapped in a perception of the vague and absolute. The wavy, outermost part, shaped by the mounds of sand, stands out in contrast with the monochrome, rectilinear part (and vice versa), evoking the vital dualism that animates reality: everything seems like a silent song of the dialectical essence that characterizes the earthly dimension, in which one senses the presence of a transcendent being cloaked in that cosmic mystery capable of making man feel like a grain of sand in an infinite expanse. In his bewilderment and dismay, he shudders and feels a sense of vertigo, which gives rise to a conscious perception of his state and his destiny. In those still waves, there is passage, there is the flow of life, the "static" story of humanity discernible despite its apparent absence. Mendicino's artistic journey continues, canvas after canvas, to reveal emblematic milestones, from which we can extrapolate a quest and a key to understanding reality, which are a contemporary pictorial voice, significant in representing the human condition and the universal. In this sense, this painting also contributes to navigating the sea of ​​knowledge through that undulating motion which, despite its immobility, restores dynamism in terms of emotional and cognitive experiences.

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