Boecklin homage Oil on canvas 80 x 80 (2003) Return to Sarossa show

Comment by Floriana D'Auria

The sense of the sublime taken back from the english romanticism, if it has the taste of Turner in the majesty of the mountains, knows how to be original in the reinterpretation of a thematic also faced by Boecklin "The island of the corpses". The challenge is open and Sarossa plays all of his cards to make his version of life in the extreme adventure. Blake the visionary would have seen it as a hallucination, Fussli as a landscape of dream, Sarossa as a place out of the space and the time, where the life as a comet, arrives and inflames itself in the last shine of light. This is not the island of the corpses but the island of everybody where every living being will find the last shelter. Beyond the nature under the benign look of the history that will protect the eternal circle of life, it is concealed another dimension, the nothing or the everything, the mystery, the light. Communicative, intuitive, able to arouse in the spectator the sense of brittleness of the present and the inevitability of the human destiny, the existentialism returns relived to the light of a modern symbolism.