Art that weaves the history of a civilization through the painful yet conscious expression of colors that give form to vibrant images and lead us to relive „exhilarating moments” in humanity’s legendary journey finds a happy and authoritative messenger in the painter Ada Cris. Born in Riace Superiore, the artist denounces the power and austerity that were the heritage of the first inhabitants of the Brutia land, the Greeks, while dreaming of the thought that the mists of time wished to reveal to us in the cheerful awakening of that sweet dawn of August 1972, when the two „proud warriors” of the 5th century BC emerged from the Ionian sea, angry but splendid. C. It is a source of great emotion to pause and admire, one by one, the „canvases” of Ada Cris, whose commitment and ingenuity have been poured into bearing witness to and offering us one of the most significant pages in the history of our civilization, once the heritage of the Magna Graecia poets, whose poetry still fascinates us today.
Lush forests populated by nymphs, centaurs, and sculptural figures seemingly untouched by the ravages of millennia; Doric columns: the last vestige of a civilization gone by…; the sweetest faces of women; images that draw life from imposing trees whose branches resemble a thousand hands raised to the sky in prayer… These and many other motifs we have the opportunity to admire in the harmonious paintings of Ada Cris. With an incomparable, genius-like technique and an equally rich and inventive culture, she draws on the primordial source of life in nature that populated the earth, to give meaning and movement to beings that gave life and meaning to nature itself: trees.
No longer static and inert—though majestic and full of life—but rather an image of the first titanic struggle waged by nature to give form to the true master of life: Mankind! In a dynamic fusion of colors and expressions, with a technique that learns nothing from traditional trends, the Artist recites the first „creed of humanity”: suffering and contemplative majesty. From here begins the long conversation with the grass, the flowers; the dialogue between beings and things, with a wonderful and logical crescendo that makes Ada Cris an authentic painter, destined by God and man to celebrate one of the most exhilarating pages in the history of humanity.
by Antonella Di Siena
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