Soly Cissè

If we deny that in the current historical condition, art is no longer a means of communicating our contemporaneity, painting is certainly the furthest way to tell about today. However, painting still remains the most sensitive and the most suitable means of appropriating the artist's inner thrust and transmitting the deepest human feeling. Matter is the continuous becoming of reality and being, matter has the ability to show its past, transform itself and become the future and to be and manifest its present. In Cissè's work, matter becomes existence, which fails to recognize itself and become aware of the self, which does not define a time or place, but represents the motion and the fleeting experience of being.
Cissè arranges the pictorial material directly on the canvas in thick layers that entangle, a moment with violent and decisive gestures and a moment later delicately like a light breath. Painting becomes an existential motion that alternates the flow of living and pure matter, from which fantastic and chimerical creatures emerge as entangled and prisoners, making the artist assume the authority of an imaginary Physiologus.
Physiologus not intended as a scholar of nature, but as a sublime interpreter of nature. The fantastic creatures that inhabit Cissè's paintings struggle to transform themselves from shapeless beings to real figures, which through the imagination of our mind materialize from pure illegible signs into representations of the abstract thought of our subconscious. The Phisiologus exhibition represents a journey into our deepest soul, a journey into the unconscious, but to be able to travel the journey it is necessary to look at the work in depth, immerse yourself in the folds of the painting, in the traces of color that fade towards the interior, and abandon yourself in total and sublime contemplation.