Paradise Lost

The painting “Paradise Lost” encases several of the items denotating the artistic research of  Martino Lorenzon through the last years. Fascinated by solemnity as well as lightness; by the sense of presence and absence to which each and every of his painting hints, Lorenzon uses minimal elements forming some sort of "meta-image", an image that points, all the rest which is not being represented there.

This painting is a hymn to our ephemeral experience in this world here and now, scratching the emptyness throught the extremely material act of painting.

In “Paradise Lost” Lorenzon achieves a kind of visual haiku, a fragile yet powerful remedy to the overwhelming flow of images coming from the digital world. From this neverending and ceaseless number of images, he is sucked in, like in a caleidoscopic black hole and ponders about what will be left of this immeasurable quantity of bits and pieces that will eventually merge into humankind memory.