The mountain and the cave

Painting

“At the end of 1986, Di Lorenzo began to purify his painting of intricate structures, introducing symbolic elements to make way for forms with precise features and a new luminosity. In other words, we observe the reorganisation, in formal terms if I may say so, of the painting structure, which, while allowing the delicate structure of restless signs and drips to emerge from the ground, alludes to the power of the symbol  […] The ‘mountain’ is the symbol of stability […] it is thus proposed as the centre of the world and at the same time as the vertical ascent of humanity towards the divine: that is, towards the light as the symbol of truth. The ‘cave’ is the secret that the mountain hides; it is the concave of the mountain […] it represents the world as a place of unknowing, suffering and judgment […]”.

Massimo Bignardi