Trevisan Carlo - La Memoria

With 'La Memoria', one is projected into one of the most enigmatic and fascinating scenes in Trevisan's body of work, where the boundary between dream and reality dissolves completely. In this oil on canvas, the artist challenges spatial logic to stage a profound reflection on the fragility and suspension of memory.
The painting presents itself as a visual puzzle in which disparate elements coexist in a surreal harmony, suspended above a barely hinted-at sea horizon.
At the center of the scene, an empty, transparent glass serves as a base for a suspended egg. The egg, a universal symbol of birth and potential, appears here in a precarious balance, perhaps representing the delicate nature of memory that can break or hatch at any moment.
Four goldfish swim in the air, surrounding the central composition. Their presence ironically evokes the saying about the "short memory" of goldfish, but here they become guardians of a thought that floats, free from the constraints of water as memories are free from the constraints of time.
A recurring element in Trevisan, the clouds act as "islands" in the sky-ocean, reinforcing the metaphysical and silent atmosphere in which the scene unfolds.
Trevisan's mastery stands out in the transparency of the glass and the volumetric perfection of the egg. The use of a dusty, uniform blue for the background creates a continuity between sky and sea, eliminating earthly reference points and inviting the observer to a pure meditation.
In this work, memory is not a dusty archive, but a living ecosystem, absurd and wonderfully fragile. Trevisan manages to render the meaning 'heavy' and the vision 'light', proving himself a poet of the brush capable of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Oil painting on canvas mounted on a wooden frame 36 x 36 cm