Senza titolo
(Untitled), 1967-69

Senza titolo (Urvasi e Gilgamesh)
(Untitled – Urvasi and Gilgamesh), 1988

 

Works by Gino De Dominicis (Ancona, 1947 - Rome, 1998), which can be ironic, metaphysical, often provocative, but always autonomous from one another, seem characterized by a constant search for the absolute, driven by the force of an awareness of the eternal glory of the work of art. This aspiration to an "other" world, impelled by the search for an absolute and unavoidable truth, seems to come to fruition in works that, while apparently ephemeral, are seeking the utopian dream of immortality.

In the piece Senza titolo (Untitled), 1967-1969, a long gilded pole rests imperceptibly on its sharpened tip, on a rock. Suspended in a situation of equilibrium, the pole in reality seems to turn toward the ceiling, in an illusory ascending movement that reveals its affinity for a stately world, also made evident by the use of the color gold, which has always conveyed strong spiritual significance.