Matheo Delalle

HERMIT

Oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm, 2020.

SAY THE UNSPEAKABLE

How to convey the strong impression that our dream had left last night? It’s hard to find words to describe the colors, space, atmosphere and intensity of the feeling that had left us within provoked. Dreams are often also a door to the other side, to the unspeakable.

A series of paintings, created last year, is my way of retelling dreams, visions, those deep states in waking or in a dream, when our mind, for a moment, gives control to the subconscious, or something even more unexplored.

The deepest, as far as we are given to penetrate, has forms for which we have no words, forms that are in constant motion and change.
Strange objects and creatures, clouds and smokes, symbols - everything is connected in an inextricable and incomprehensible web. They have no color logic, shadows are irrational!

Dreams, visions, like these in my paintings, are the information we get when we let ourselves leave this reality for a moment, our daily routines, our fears and expectations. When we reject what we have learned and accept our essence, as beings who exist on many planes of consciousness, as beings both mortal and immortal.

The titles of the pictures give the viewer a possible meaning - my personal interpretation painted, what I see in the picture, when it is already finished.

Turn off for a moment, stop thinking and watch.
Images are there to make contact with a world that exists outside of this reality, obscure and elusive.