The
artistic
sensitivity
is
an
undetermined
quality
in
each
person,
who,
according
to
the
circumstances,
gives
it
life
in
a
specific
format.
Within
the
artist
it
can
remain
a
host
of
different
choices,
a
call
for
more
than
just
one
expression,
so
to
speak;
but
what
the
author
wants
to
say
and
means
is
always
the
same:
he
singles
out
a
peculiar
symbol
around
which
he
trains
himself,
creates
and produces.
Mario
Cei
condenses
in
the
human
figure,
seen
as
image
and
person
(also,
being
himself
an
actor,
“a
characer
of
tragedy”),
his
idea
of
life
and
his
will
to
exalt
reality;
the
body,
whom
he
moulds
to
the
expression,
reappears
in
his
paintings
and
drawings
as
a
means to and a summary of his interpretation – and obsession - of the meaning to the existence.
In
his
works
made
with
Indian
ink
and
pencil,
the
stroke
is
soft
and
strong,
as
a
learned
vibrating
of
the
voice;
the
gesture
of
the
figures is focussed and symbolic, just like in his theatrical performances.
Cei
chooses
models
taken
from
Classic
Antiquities,
preferring
those
of
the
Tragedy
rather
than
those
of
the
history,
and
they
are
conscious of all the meanings a millenarian culture has loaded them with, but sharp in their incorruptible beauty.
Cei
portrays
them
through
a
sign
which
is
in
turn
enhanced
in
anatomical
hyperboles
but
veiled
of
inner
softness,
and
which
is
aware
of
the
whole
rewriting
of
the
Greek
myths
done
by
the
Romanticism
before,
and
by
the
Symbolism
after,
all
the
way
down
to
the intellectual decay of the Secessionism.
The
result
is
a
work
both
shady
and
pure,
loud
and
speechless,
which
skilfully
finds
his
place
in
the
modern
thread
of
reinterpretation.
Rossana Bossaglia
At the exhibition ”Animula vagula” Bottega dei Sogni, Milano 1990
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