......Olga reproposes the nude in its entirety, the male nude taken from whatever mapping or idealization, on the contrary it is almost represented in its vulnerability – as vulnerable as present day males are, whose vanity does not hide the need for closure and introspection. Bold postures, piercing looks only hide uncertainty. Huge female eyes look deeply and desire, gigantic mouths shut in the presence of the desired object. The male is portrayed in front of  the female as a Lilliputian, as a small animal in a cage, observed and coveted in his nudity, that is to say defenceless. There is something anguishing even in the colours, red green blue, without iridescences, shadings or particular vibrations. At times there are deep shadows which recall interiors, closed and limited spaces, fixed and blocked levels. Even the young men close themselves, as the position of their arms demonstrated. The bodies curl up by an instinct of defence.

paintings
 

.......Frutto di una ricerca continua, dopo una lunga esperienza, il vetro costituisce oggi una delle materie principali del suo lavoro. Realizza oggetti sempre nuovi, unici, principalmente strutture per architettura d’interni come vetrate artistiche per porte e divisioni ambientali dagli effetti molto originali. Questo incredibile materiale, permette di realizzare forme dove il colore, la luce e la materia sono protagonisti assoluti. Le fusioni si realizzano a temperature elevate sfruttando la capacità di certi ossidi di combinarsi con il vetro producendo realizzazioni particolari, che rendono l’oggetto vivo e luminoso. Gli effetti di bassorilievo sono ottenuti sovrapponendo strati di vetro più piccoli ai vetri di base e cocendo conseguentemente a temperatura ridotta per evitare una fusione completa. Con il vetro ha realizzato anche opere in mosaico, in ambienti interni ed esterni.

the glass     

    glass door   

......It happens at least three times that in the background, as if on a cinema screen, behind the male nude and  definitely enlarged, gigantic if measured in relation to the figure in the foreground, an eye wide open stands out firm with its regular form and contours...........

.....Are they the recovering, in different contexts, of exempla of an art of great style of our tradition, in accordance with a mannerist poetic theatrically solved through rereading and quotation? Or are these the sites of the evoking of myth? ... Or are they ancient lords dethroned and ridiculed, and kings by now desolately nude, now that women’s emancipation is about to be fulfilled? ... What is the meaning of the male nudes by Olga De Gasperis?

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