THE ABODE OF BOUNDLESS By Maurizio Sciaccaluga "Our soul is going to awake itself from a long period of materialism, and it hold into itself the germs of the disperation which born from the lack of faith, from the lack of an aim and from the lack of a goal. The incubus of the materialistic conceptions isn’t disappeared, we consider the life of the universe as a perverse game: a game without weight. Soul is going to wake up, but we still feel preys of the incubus. It guesses only a weak light, as a point into a huge black circle." Wassily Kandinsky, "Spirituality into the art" The consequent and monothematic Works of Mellà explore one opportunity in a haunting way, they examine again and again the same chance, they go ahead a continuous research. The art Works like " The armony into asymmetry" or "Colour = Energy = Understanding" are exemplary. If into the infinitesimal dimension every photostat is a charming and inexplored world, different and indipendent of the ancestor drawing sheet, in the same way the artist’s primitive form sound unspeakable depht. Each painting is a threshold, a limit where the creative exaltation reveal itself. Into the Works of Mellà the atmosphere is vibrating , it seems the beginning and the end of every thing like a Big Bang All second are spended waiting for an event. In a stroke of the pen, into a line, into a sign lives the infinite. Dino Buzzati had reason when he wrote that the universe is only a forgotten molecule inside the body of a little animal. Mellà speaks about the mistery of life. We have to remember the group of works "Colour = Energy = Understanding", where similar structures distinguish themselves, and where different forms discover themselves similar. The time evaporates and a day goes identical to an another day. “Identical things will be done and then they will be done again … and tomorrow doesn’t seem tomorrow.” (C. Kavafis) So a painter is like an archaeologist. An artist digs, an artist dusts the traces. He inquires, he admires the differences of every single life. For Mellà every life, every sign are the centre of the world. She is an archivist and she is also a librarian. She lists the variations, She gives evidence for the change, She underlines the times of a stopped evolution. Mellà builds a “ binary system” inside which each element - open or close, right or thrown back, negative or positive - causes a mathematics logic. The abstraction refers to numbers and to Pitagora without rethoric.The formal figure is the symbolical figure and the combinatorius calculus eats up the evolutionist theory. Mellà’s action is to compare with the informatic research about the graphic pixel. The proliferation of the sign/structure and the cancellation of every presence on the painting/screen make think to this elements like elettronic virus. The cycle “Breath”, for example, presents a series of basic elements (colours and lines) that It aggregates and multiplies subsequently in any possible direction. It’s like a music played with the same notes but never equal. With a similar rythm but with a different melody. The theme of the Works is the same for each paintings: the surprise for the life, the emotion for the discovery. The meaning of the work speaks trough the colours and tells itself in an original way. As a carnival the paintings narrate of a huge and fleeting delight, They sing a chromatic and absolut rapture. Mellà, inside the collection "Earth", is also inspired by Ben Vautier, by his way of writing as a little child at the primary school: a simple and round handwriting. The paint-brush and the colours has . been tools to transmit something for which the pen wasn’t enough: an inner neccessity under the shape of trompe l’oeil.The black, a kind of non-colour, strikes the onlooker , and the mimetic process makes of the paintings a sort of blackboards. The artist changes the paintings into big blackboards: blackboards of shed and exact thoughts.A "magrittism" of the word: "Ceci n’est pas un pipe", said Magritte. The reality, into his simbolic transposition, is an arbitrary act, and Melà’s artistic research is fonde on the free will … With the same obsession, with the same searched and necessary repetition.

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