FRANCIS BACON

EXHIBITION IN MILAN - PALAZZO REALE, 27/7/2008

The first truly great exhibition of Bacon in Italy!

Of course, I couldn't miss it.

(Not even seven and a half hours of train have seemed to me an obstacle)
What I can say....no words could explane why a Bacon canvas gently hits to death you.
If I think about those 4 hours, now, I clearly see - colours.
Actually, an aspect of Bacon I didn't delve enough before.
Colours are the key to understand the shock-effect of the first look to a Bacon canvas, specially the ones of the late period.
In those bruise violets, glowing pinks and full greens....
.....there's something magic.
They have a never-seen before vividness.
They capture a sense of reality, that remains altough deformations and shape distortions.

It's always a question of reality.
What kinda spell, this strage equilibrium.

P.S. I leave you with some beautiful photos of the painter throughout the years.