The Places of the Annunciation

This virtual exhibition reproposes a personal show developed in a cloister of the Renaissance, near the church of S. Agostino, in Pietrasanta (LU), in 2001. Along its walls I arranged four paintings, one for side and in specular position, that lead us to decode the presence of an ancient symbology.
The last painting, that close the show, is made up of a mirror, placed in the centre of the canvas, where every visitor sees reflecting the own face, that becomes part of the exhibition. The four paintings show ancient symbolic shapes.

The circle represents the notions of totality, wholeness, original perfection, the Self, the infinite, God (God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere (Hermes Trismegistus)). The square is the Earth, as opposed to the heavens, with the sides as cardinal points to enclose the borders of the universe. The ancient religious compositions that testified in their symmetrical disposition the presence of two different natures inside the same shape.
The mirror is a reflection of the soul, “man's knowledge of himself, the clear shining surface of divine truth” where the sky and the earth, like in the human eyes, equally rest in the same substance.