Quel gaudio luminoso / del silenzio delle cose (That bright bliss / of silence of things) _1st series

In my opinion, we witness a fundamental change in the framework of Michele Drascek’s production in 2003. In his research, starting from the analysis of the human body, thanks to the reading and the study of Mario Luzi’s poetry, he gets ashore to the interior and informal landscape with the series Quel gaudio luminoso / del silenzio delle cose (The bright bliss / of silence of things). In this new context, the colour – the absolute protagonist – perfectly coexists with a silent line, marked with a burin that crosses the desserts of the soul. These last works of art are characterised by refined chromatic contrasts where the endless and almost neurotic theoretical research by Michele Drascek, seem to achieve tranquillity and peace, symbolised in those gentle and imperceptible lines that stand out miraculously on still skies. These works of art – I believe – are the most intense.
Luca Geroni


Quel gaudio luminoso/del silenzio delle cose
acrylic and burin on plexiglas
18 x 13 cm.
[© private collection]


Quel gaudio luminoso/del silenzio delle cose #2
acrylic and burin on plexiglas
18 x 13 cm.
[© private collection]


Quel gaudio luminoso/del silenzio delle cose #3
acrylic and burin on plexiglas
18 x 13 cm.
[© private collection]

Quel gaudio luminoso / del silenzio delle cose (That bright bliss / of silence of things) _2nd series

Landscapes narrated by a fluid colour that gently slides on small Plexiglas panels and overlaps in blue, white, pink and black starts, engraved and scratched in some points by thick signs that interrupt the continuity of the brush-stroke yet without distorting its natural course. In Michele Drascek’s new works of art, we register a clear formal and aesthetic change in comparison with his past work, while the conceptual connotation and a well-defined choice of colour always remain strong in his works. The saturated colour and the vigorous feature give way to silent territories that animate through slight, transparent and bright nuances where the human presence is completely forbidden, and is considered unnecessary for these spaces that give the stand to the bright bliss of silence of things, the sudden radiance of the air [Mario Luzi].
Cristina Feresin


Quel gaudio luminoso/del silenzio delle cose #4
acrylic and burin on plexiglas
30 x 24 cm.
[© private collection]


Quel gaudio luminoso/del silenzio delle cose #5
acrylic and burin on plexiglas
30 x 24 cm.
[© private collection]


Quel gaudio luminoso/del silenzio delle cose #6
acrylic and burin on plexiglas
30 x 24 cm.
[© private collection]


Quel gaudio luminoso/del silenzio delle cose #7
acrylic and burin on plexiglas
30 x 24 cm.
[© private collection]

Quel gaudio luminoso / del silenzio delle cose #8

acrylic and burin on plexiglas

70 x 48 cm.

[© private collection]