After reading Poesie a Casarsa (Poems in Casarsa) by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Dora Bassi paints the fifteen canvases composing the cycle entitled “Altair, stella della pietà” (“Altair, stars of piety” – translator’s note). The pictorial text translates the theme, conceived by Pasolini, of the feeling of nostalgia for innocence within a narrative of teenager figures of incautious beauty, to whom she adds, as if a present, a landscape made of lacustrian waters and spring-water light, metaphors of the gift on encounter and of human essence.
Il djaul peciador / The sinful devil (2002) oil on canvas, cm 90 x 90, courtesy of the Council of Gorizia
Il nini muart / The dead child (2002), oil on canvas, cm 90 x 90, courtesy of the Council of Gorizia
Altair / Altair (2002), oil on canvas, cm 90 x 90, courtesy of the Council of Gorizia
Spirit d’amor / Spirit of Love (2002), oil on canvas, cm 90 x 90, courtesy of the Council of Gorizia
Serene puarte la sere / Quiet brings the evening (2002), oil on canvas, cm 90 x 90, courtesy of the Council of Gorizia
Il frut peciador / The sinful child (2002), oil on canvas, cm 90 x 90, courtesy of the Council of Gorizia
La frescje rosade / Fresh dew (2002), oil on canvas, cm 90 x 90, courtesy of the Council of Gorizia
I ragazzi del fiume / The boys of the river (2002), oil on canvas, cm 90 x 90, courtesy of the Council of Gorizia
Tai nustris cuarps / In our bodies (2002), oil on canvas, cm 90 x 90, courtesy of the Council of Gorizia
Narciso / Narcissus (2002), oil on canvas, cm 90 x 90, courtesy of the Council of Gorizia
Quant che mi jevi / When I wake up (2002), oil on canvas, cm 90 x 90, courtesy of the Council of Gorizia
La cjamare dal frut / The child’s room (2002), oil on canvas, cm 90 x 90, private collection
La mari / The mother (2002), oil on canvas, cm 90 x 90, private collection