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a project by Ilaria Villagrassa

(in collaboration with 

Roberto Ghisu, Vasilis Flouris and Felipe Aguila)

The Blue Keeper is a combination of paintings, sounds and video fragments. The Blue Keeper is a space of mystery, a state of mind, surrounded by feelings.

THE BLUE KEEPER

ART PROJECT IN HERAKLION, RESIDENCESEA, CRETE

“Through a mixture of painting, voice / sound and visual fragments, the sea, as a space of mystery, reveals images and secret thoughts, unperceivable and kept in the deep.

Silent steps being suspended more and more as they penetrate the sensitive universe.

Painted shades of blue, green, turquoise lead the viewer into a deep space, invite him to cross the threshold that separates the blue of the sky from the blue of the sea and dive into the unconscious in a suspended moment that demands suggestions.

It is not a journey to understand, but to be immersed in mystery.

Impressions of colors, veiled in blue and turquoise, guarded by the sea, are recovered from the deep unconscious and invite the viewer to stay in that moment, in that calm swinging underwater, and make contact with the inner universe

Paintings that evoke images / sequences shot and filmed under water and flush water in a mixture that generates a unique feeling.

The use of oil colour with glazes in subtle layers and an interpenetration with natural pigments outline a dreamlike environment undefined, intangible and surreal. Photographs to display variables in different lighting (also working with polarization) give origin to intangible scenarios in correlation with  projections in which a voice brings out the space of deep thought, whispered and poetic.

Water of the blue sea, guardian of mystery, becomes a place in mid – breath, and being surrounded  by feelings. It combines and merges, envelops and contains blue as a reminder, that in itself collects, accompanies and leads the observer in the sensorial dimension.

The artistic representation opens other scenarios and becomes a more subtle experience to the observer that the size of the actual natural conditions could resist the immersion only for the timespan of a breath and now instead finds himself enjoying  a time of art expanded, where visions, blurred reflections and feelings are guarded from the inner space, only to be revealed in the deep.”

THE BLUE KEEPER VIDEO

Blue of the deep Ocean
Sweet blue that sways
Melody in blue
Thousand notes you are
Blue eyes for me
Blue caress of the sky
Have you been me?
Pure water of spring that colors dissolves
I reflect myself in you
Blue moments softly touch in you
And the time is suspended as I loose myself in you

It stills resonates in me the sweet remembrance on the blue note enchanted, and in silver,
like a recall that takes me away, inside me.

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