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Searching for the fourth Dimension

article by Paola Fusco

Paola FuscoTo be able to go further than the beyond, with the help of art, is a choice of life, a belief, affirms Emanuele Viscuso, a sculptor from Palermo who has lived for many years in Milan, in the heart of Brera, the artists’ quarter. To try to reach the universe is the only hope permitted to man, by creating art, or living art, one overcomes the materialism of life which is already in itself a work of art. This is created day after day, hour after hour, minute after minute, by reliving the past, living in the present and imagining the future. Emanuele Viscuso uses mainly wood for his works, the material in essence is poor but outer form reflects the inner richness of the artist and his need for harmony in which truth, goodness and beauty converge. Frank Lloyd Wright said “Simplicity and dignity are the qualities which measure the true value of each work of art; and these, are the peculiarities of his sculptures which are both essential and so precious that they attract the curiosity of the spectator and capture his attention”. The result of aesthetic research, which stems from his spirituality, as he aspires to expand without limits, to a fourth dimension. Freedom and low, romanticism and rationalism form the womb of his structures projected upwards, that extend towards the unknown always leaving presumed new evolutions. Having got his degree in Naples, he moved to Milan in 1973 where he started to work as an artist, presenting his first exhibitions and gathering the approval of the public and critics. He was invited to the United States where he successfully exhibited and where his most important collectors are – Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli and Ethel Kennedy for example. He considers himself fortunate and privileged as he does what he wants and aspires to being appreciated by all the beneficiaries of his work to communicate to them his enthusiasm for life, his surprise and interest in everything that surrounds him. He is also a good poet and composer of music and his sculptures are saturated with vibrations even through they are meticulously attentive and calculated. The successions of such harmonious and linear elements create not only elegant structures but also creations with a vital everlasting lymph destined for an image – making world made of fragility, shininess and beauty. In this way, he presents a subtle intellectual work of art and deep sentiment, instinct and reason and the will to give the most of himself, Emanuele Viscuso offers these sound and tangible emanations, escaping towards the unknown. The perfection of his work is not sterile but miraculously generous and pureness and faith his work contains. Therefore there is no relationship between his proposals and the construction, of optical art and poor art; his are different messages of an instinctive and informal artist who works with control and rationalism.