"Paolo Polimeno (1919-2007)hst "the Sailboats" Paris 1968"
Oil painting on canvas depicting aviaries at sea, signed lower right "Polimeno" located lower left Conflans-Sainte-Honorine and dated Paris 68. 20th century period. (snag on the canvas, see photos) Canvas size 65*50 and 85*70 cm with frame Paolo Polimeno (Paul Polimenò) (Scylla - RC, 1919 - Paris, 2007) The Parisian painter by adoption, born in Reggio Calabria, and his astonishing conquest of what can be called the fifth dimension of art: that is to say, memory. For the first time the painting comes out of itself, spreads, becomes sound. It exists in its environment only as a din, a drama: it unfolds backwards, and only; every time I know, look. It unfolds continuously, it is no longer infinite, but it is now in the eye of the spectator. In other words, it is a wave fact that comes out of the painting, and converges in the eye of the observer, to be a "densified fact", and at the limit an image point. Fifth dimension because it takes place in a new vertical in relation to the support, illusorily suggested by a straight star; and it is memory because the image can only be grasped with distance, just like an event that receives its correct context only after its completion.