L'amore non è cieco - Love is not blind Print

This painting by Emanuela Volpe presents a conceptual artwork that deeply connects to the feeling of love, interpreted through the allegory of color and shape. The choice of calligraphy as a visual technique allows the artist to give a literal body to Pablo Neruda's poem, "The morning is full of storms". The words, translated into Italian, are organized in bright red vertical lines that drip and converge in the center, giving life to an intense, almost pulsating heart in the center of the composition. The predominance of yellow as a background, with its greenish hue when observed for a long time, represents a refined metaphor for the vision of lovers. This optical effect induces the observer to perceive something "more" than what is actually visible, suggesting the idea that lovers see beyond appearances, finding hidden meanings in their object of desire. The red heart, composed of intertwined words, symbolizes the center of the lover's emotion and thought, while the yellow background - symbol of vitality and energy - almost becomes a mirror of his state of mind. TEXT OF CALLIGRAM La mattina è gonfia di tempesta nel cuore dell'estate. Come bianchi fazzoletti d'addio viaggiano le nubi, il vento le scuote con le sue mani peregrine. Cuore infinito del vento che palpita sul nostro silenzio innamorato. E ronza tra gli alberi, orchestrale e divino, come una lingua piena di guerre e di canti. Vento che rapina fulmineo le foglie secche e devia le frecce palpitanti degli uccelli. Vento che le travolge in onda senza spuma e sostanza senza peso, e fuochi inclinati. Si rompe e sommerge il suo volume di baci combattuto sulla porta del vento dell'estate.