Luce d'Estasi

A further result of this reemergence, of the resurfacing of a forgotten element, is Buio Pneuma, a work fundamental to this confrontation with the truths of one’s identity.

Buio Pneuma was born from the darkening of an old painting, a figurative relic in a tar-like black, from which the artist allowed certain forms to blossom independently. From that obscured ground, Sicioldr was able to extract a new image, in which the whisper is almost imperceptible and the atmosphere appears nearly synesthetic – light itself transforms at the threshold of noise. Darkness becomes the existential condition in which everything unfolds: within it, a chosen ear – only one – can perceive a subtle murmur of hope, an invisible yet immensely powerful light that gives meaning to it all. And the messenger, who carries that single word of light within and with itself, seems made of the same substance as darkness, as if darkness itself were alive.

Once again, with the elegance of a hand bending matter to its inner cosmos, the artist represents Shadow and Light not as moral opposites, but as complementary poles: without light, shadow is chaos; without shadow, light is illusion.

Sicioldr stages a condition of continuous metamorphosis: minds open, fragment, and duplicate while bodies remain unbreakable; gazes multiply and illuminate; surfaces expand and fold like sensitive membranes.

Ecstasy becomes a threshold, a fracture through which an elsewhere is glimpsed – not necessarily transcendent, but profoundly intimate. In this ambiguous space, the boundary between the spiritual and the psychological thins, allowing images to emerge that are both archetypal and radically contemporary.

Light, central to the exhibition, is not only a symbol of epiphanic revelation but also a tool of disorientation.

It exposes and veils, reveals and consumes.

In some works, it appears as a diffuse glow that suspends gravity and renders the consistency of the world uncertain, evoking ecstatic visions close to the imagery of Teresa of Ávila – Il Castello and La Cittadella are striking examples – preparing the ground for a silent, latent illumination, yet imminent. In others, such as Luce Fluente or Luce-Bagliore, it manifests as a radiance that penetrates flesh and pierces reality, a sign of change and renewal.

It is a light that does not console but interrogates: it lays bare the vulnerability of being, suggesting that ecstasy is always an unstable balance between loss and knowledge.