OPERA -Homage
to Maria Callas
Carla Horat's "Mad flight"
by Leoluca Orlando (Mayor di Palermo)
Adventure, Utopia, risk: what man,
for his joy, for consolation or out of grief, attempts
through the air has the deep meaning of a jump into
another world. It is what can allow him to perceive
- and to make others perceive - little lights of an
infinite mystery, what can restore to him the discovery
of the other, a draught of spring in the desert or,
perhaps, the most hidden value of his existence.
Through endeavours, through approaches,
through contamination, the artist is the inventor-discover.
Technique is his natural predisposition. Interpretation,
his fantasy.
All these qualities, the burning
desire to overcome, acute sensibility, the anxious
desire for comparison, are present in Carla Horat,
who -as she approaches the singing of Maria Callas
with her painting - goes in search of another dimension,
uses the art to understand another one, with the dream
of representing the unrepresentable, with the goal
of fusing together the universes to find another one.
Thus this prestigious exhibition
of hers at the Lincoln Centre in New York, dedicated
to and inspired by Maria Callas, is not just the interpretation
of an artistic language, does not only allow us to
perceive the sound of music and song through colours,
forms, spaces, the light and shadow on the canvas,
but achieves the miraculous result of giving us something
else - we do not know precisely what - which lands
on a remote beach towards which Callas' voice was
perhaps heading.
Loves, hates, rancorous, delicacies,
transparencies of singing and music come alive again,
reinterpreted, in Carla Horat's painting. And we,
dwelling on the canvas, see, feel, breathe passages
and characters from the operatic works of Callas,
but from another horizon, with different force and
emotion.
Carla Horat's immersion in the world
of Callas gives us the rapture of a journey without
bounds and without destination. We would be happy
if Carla Horat - who is so beloved in Palermo - brought
from New York to Palermo the splendid traces of this
"mad flight" of hers.
(February, 2000)
Translation by Dennis Gailor)
"Opera" includes 45
paintings (acrylic on canvas cm100x120) made between
1998 and 1999, following a long period of meditation,
much inspired by Claudia Horat's great admiration
fo the opera singer Maria Callas. Each work, with
its colours, shapes and marks, paus homage to a different
opera sung by this superb singer and is a tribute
to her art and interpretative skills. Here are a few
examples:
©2000 Carla Horat
©2000 Edizioni Guida s.r.l.
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