UNIVERSE AS INTEGRITY ALLUSION

UNIVERSE AS INTEGRITY ALLUSION

 

Painting is the main paradigm based on which art is understood. It has maintained its position at all esthetic periods, especially when it comes to the contemporary. The concept of ontological integrity, regardless of which provenance it belonged to, it has established the contact between the universal and the partial through the canvas filled with the feelings of the whole expression. Heidegger rightly means that the allusion is enslaved by weaved metaphysics and the traditional distinction between the sensory and over-sensory. It serves to pass over thoughts with inertia, which we see in the very act of creation, which in a way is the metaphysics of subjectivity. The artistic allusion thought sets it in the position of processed phenomenon, the phenomenon which sometimes has the opportunity to connect with the idea and carry it in the form of essential mimesis without creating shadows of shadows, as Plato would have said. Ibn Arabi in Fususu’l-Hikam in metaphysical longitudinal stories of prototype existence, transforms the whole existence into medial constitution of the subject. Subject and its reflection in the visible appear as an expression of love and artistic works, in this case also of the conscious being, human, which is focused between subjectivity and reflection.

The idea of three artists, Zarije Amdiu, Dita Starova and Shqipe Mehmeti, to express the totality of their feelings on the existential wholeness, which is able to express itself only through art, in the form of the Universe, it is not of a spectrum of geographical latitude, consequently of artistic works that are presented in the history of human culture, but rather of a geographical longitude and the vertical fall from the top down. Their expressiveness presented in the form of concern for the partialization of the human gene is articulated in the canvas through exaltation for the wholeness and the vastness of the Universe.

Zarije Amdiu in her artistic concept, which can be seen in the cycle as well, feels deep in her soul the exciting insight of the philosophical egocentrism. Her paintings generate from the rabid soul inside the person who disagrees with the arrogant partialization and consequences of individual interest and ugliness which derive from dismantling the wholeness. Sometimes through collages tries to portray her love for completeness. Teleology, order of the universe, the harmony of the spheres in her works create an exciting melody which in addition to the eye which sees in silence, address the ears as well.

Similarly, the graphics of Shqipe Mehmeti and the paintings of Dita Starova create a universal flame, which as in the example of Naj poem of Mevlana Jalal Rumi, burns its interior to come out on top of the orchestra of the Universe and sing the melody of the purpose of the Homo sapiens in the arena of existence. The esthetic feeling which is reflected through allusion of the Universe, subject and act, it is always getting closer to the original experience, to what we experience in the form of metaphysical passion and pain. The last ones are the main instruments of perception of the necessity of being.

Since the topic is Universe then the blue color is inevitable. Blue is the color of angels … it is the color of heaven and sea … height and depth … symbolizes loyalty, dedication, wisdom, confidence … blue is considered beneficial because it slows down human metabolism and calms the soul … blue is strongly associated with peace and tranquility … Blue is an initiative of the iconography of fifteenth century … modest color but the work of an incomparable will … the blue is dominant in the wall decorations of Muslim spiritual buildings, especially in the nineteenth century … Zarije, Shqipe and Dita are exalted from this wholeness, and we all agree that there is no better expression than that of visible and invisible Universe.

But let’s leave the colors aside for a while, as well as the experiences of the perspective and masterful backgrounds… please take a look at the essential colors … stars, flame, depth of the Universe are all in color and light .. one cannot decide which one is better, whether the colors or the light that falls on them … like it is transferred to the Platonic metaphor platform with Chinese and Greek artists … their walls no matter how beautiful have even more beautiful colors, the walls are cleaned with the peaceful and pure soul … and every light that falls on these walls reflects as nice … maybe the walls are not of the construction material … maybe they are human hearts whose spirit makes even the stars to light up even more. ..

While, through abstraction, as the poet Sezai Karakoç says, Zarije and her colleagues, will try to acquire and extract the skeleton of the geometry of the universe, the masterful movement of the brush in creating the abstract expressionist concept resembles the harmony of the movement of celestial bodies. They are free but they experience their freedom in law and order of the universe. While, on the other hand, the gap is an allusion of semantic poverty. Due to this, the gap has deeper meaning in the works of the aforementioned authors. It draws the care and attention of man to the Unseen, beyond physics. Their art, in fact, creates calmness, eliminates all the turbulence and passionate claims of the world by building instead a sequence of expression of balance, tranquility and peace.

Convinced that this exhibition in New York will be an opportunity for presentating their work across the ocean, but always with hope and confidence that the New York art-loving public will have what to see and what to get them excited in the days of the exhibition…

         Metin Izeti

English translation: Saranda Arifi