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PROF. GIOVANNI LEMBO
Veiled memories
In this series of paintings, the artist Sabina Lops, wanted to cover an iconographic historical trip, in the attempt to give again life to many faces of the past, to tell from their existence not to allow that their identity went lost. They are movies’ “stars”. Divas of the projections of the silent films of the early twentieth-century, of the following arrival of the sound and of characters that contributed to form the great “history of the cinema”. The canvas is painted with the use of sandy materials, dusts made of marble, paper, chalk, in clean opposition with the perfection that these “divas” represent. All this confers to the painting a matter appearance and worn-out aspect, to push the audience to approach a deeper emotional investigation. Intimate introspections that slip out from the features performed by hatching with oil painting to the attitude of the figures that wander from the rigorous analysis of the inwardness of the Renaissance portrait, to the restless expression of the twentieth-century soul. Undecipherable sentences, not always used, that seem to tell private stories that no one will never disclose. In accordance with a revolutionary definition of Socrates: the man is its soul; the body is its tool. All these women seem to have interpreted totally this thought, they have been in fact very famous prima Donna and idolized, that across their body, not only have marked an epoch and the history of the cinema, but have also given an imprint to fashion, to the taste, to the female image of whole generations. Celebrate earlier on, often sunk in the oblivion. They are more famous that well-known. No one of them has been old. Pioneer of this bewildered work, they inspired all the other. How many have been martyrdoms, rich and privileged, more often unhappy or lost in an apparent ideal life. In this female universe a particular homage is dedicated to the masculine icon of the silent films: Charlie Chaplin with the little Jackie Coogan. Investigating and rereading these figures of the past in the present, the artist Sabina Lops induces to rediscover the charms of the time, the charms of a veiled memory, giving the immortality, for ever, to these souls.