ALEPH in Pesaro (Italy) - 2014

Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet and has the corresponding greek alpha, has the corresponding arabic letter alif and from this originated also the A in latin. But the aleph is also an achievement, a privileged point of observation, a place where all the universes remain in balance, suspended in the mind, in an infinite possibility of existence. What Thea Tini tells through a personal parable of images and signs is the ability to capture the near and the far, the contingent and the universal, and combine the distant worlds of East and Western though. The starting point is her interest in the elements and archetypal symbols, a lasting and tenacious passion. Approaching slowly will leads us to see into the shadows of darkness and see the dazzling light; to weigh bodily the full and observe the emptiness, to outline the profile of the people and things and perceive the deepest meaning. This comes true with her figures and her fluid portraits, composed of diluted and complementary colors that extract the essence from the aspects of the visible like the light; it is realized in the arrangement effigies in the diptychs that creates opposition and complementary; in relationship with the writing that penetrates inside the treated again figures, becoming a testament of thought and literary capable to overcome the limit of the visual representation. The Aleph of Thea Tini is an invitation to reflect on the meaning of our personal journey. Are we really what we want to be? How can we embrace the totality of the universe? It is the artist who tries to lock the emotion of a moment in the ever-changing spectacle of life. The Aleph Borges told by the homonymous story that gives its name to the famous collection is the paradoxical synthesis of a difficult concept: it would seem impossible, but if there really is a point, a moment in which all the points of the space and all the instants of the time were visible?

(Annamaria Bernucci)