Massimo Caso

The work of Massimo Caso, (Rome,1968), stems from introspection; a self-taught artist, he felt the need to bring out his emotions through painting. His canvases place us in front of a perceptual paradox: they can appear as walls wounded by time, and induce us to close ourselves in an immobile suggestion made of silence, isolation and solitude; or they can, on the exact contrary, appear as landscapes, wide open spaces where we can recognize the changing elements of nature: skies dominated by clouds, lights, shadows and reflections.

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Water, homophorion

"Acqua Omoforion" in the East: robe of deaconesses and consecrated virgins , in the West: typical robe of the mother of God and holy women , in Bracciano: and the water that touches and embraces the shores of Anguillara Bracciano Trevignano and Vicarello.

Water, the boundary between life and death, is the primordial and generative element; water constitutes the original substance above which the divine spirit hovers. (Genesis 1:2) "The spirit of God hovered over the waters." In the water, the source of life, he baptizes John and before the end of it all "he showed me the river of water and life" (John apocalypse) It is the water source of life, which inspires Massimo Caso's work, he represents it with the color of the sky, blue protective mantle, it is the color of the Mother Goddess and the glaucopid Athena, it is Giotto's sky; that blue that is confused with the water of his lake in which Massimo immerses his creative universe.

Edited by

Francesco Rinaldi