FULVIO PULITINI

Fulvio Pulitini: in his present paintings we could try to seek to explore the most tragic aspects of our age, among those the conflict situation in the area of the Middle East.

Through symbolic and expressive images, the author tries to transmit a message of reflection about violence - active and passive - that human beings frequently use over other human beings and other cultures. He tries also to denounce the exercise of the overbearing behaviour and power itself that deprive people of the their own sensibility towards the weakest.

There is almost an archaic and exotic call in his paintings: biblical lands, where the war as an ancient plague rules supreme since centuries in a burning and desert atmosphere, where veiled women and men, covered with Islamic clothes, look almost powerless at their own disgrace.

But this situation, the war itself, is ancient as the origin of the human kind, and it does not concern only our time or a specific geographical area. Also South America, land of the greatest Pre-Colombian civilizations, has been brutally exposed at any sort of violence caused by the Spanish conquistadores in the XVI century.

Somewhere else poverty torments human beings, segregating them in slums, dividing them from the rich part of this world, causing symptoms like rage and violence.

Rage and violence, physical and psychological, can be also witnessed in our ancient and traditional dimension, accompanied often by another antique evil: the indifference.

But human violence has even extended its arm against environment. Let’s not forget the old and noble Palestinian olive trees, trees that have been cut off, mutilated and uprooted.

Paradoxically it is from this atavic and ancestral entity called Nature, the environment itself, that we can have a feeling of compensation and hope.

Let’s think about butterflies. They fly free in a spirit that seems to transcend every awful situation that happens on earth, that seems to be connected with the childhood toy-ballons that freely as well fly towards the sky, going beyond the walls of hatred and difficulties.

Nature, the only entity, that survives even under the suffocating coils of the monstrous reptile of war and destruction.

It gives us a lesson: every conflict has an end, no matter how much is long, violent and terrible, while the spirit of the Earth and Nature is eternal and immortal together with its expressions of beauty, peace and harmony.

Walter Storri