The
word horizon, whose history through early Greek and late Latin, leads to an
uncertain etymon: ḥros, contains an ambiguous meaning, it means "limit,
border".
Such ambiguity, in time, has been maintained, in a physical
attribution as well as in a metamorphic one.
A "virtual" line that together, joins and separates, denies
its own existence, optical "illusion", unreachable landscape and
way, represents the comforting infinite but may originate , also, from
bewilderment and fear.
A border of convention(not only for we ligurians of the coast)
between "territories" and "mobile" substances which are
air and water, it presumes and suggests circularity, a continuous itinerary
The astronomer's celestial horizon forces us to imagine a celestial sphere
whose poles have the mythical names of Zenith and Nadir.
A "denied " horizon deprives the range of consciousness and
extinguishes the need for the absolute.
Deanna Galletto has succeeded in expressing these very complex
concepts and their archetype value in her works that are inspired by the
horizon.
Metaphors and "geography" predominate in the modulation of
the blues, but also the tonality of the browns and whites elaborated with
great effectiveness are realized with a three-dimensionality and the
subjective privilege that this artist has been developing for a long time
with consolidated mastery and originality.
The works' composition, the escaping prospective of the lines and the
paintings' dimension subsequently strengthen the proposed horizontality.
The "limit" and horizon become a mysterious opening
vertically, more like a fracture than border between an external world and
an internal one, a fracture indicated with metal plates whose metaphor is
exposed.
Giovanna Riu, La Spezia, July 1996
