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Guido Vermeulen's mail art envelopes are like worlds into themselves and at the same time they are part of the much larger whole.

(a comment by NANCY BELL SCOTT, USA, on the IUOMA network)

Guido's paintings are like finding images in the clouds
(a comment by Kathleen D. Johnson, USA, on IUOMA)

Guido does not paint monsters but spirits and ghosts, full of love, tenderness and compassion
(LIZA LEYLA during a conversation, Belgium)

His ability to express emotions through painting is a beautiful gift. Allowing oneself to feel sadness is the most direct route through grief. His paintings feel peaceful and kind.

(STEPHEN WALKER, USA)


My life is shifting... Your work is intangible, ethereal, cosmically rewarding. i eat it up & savor it like a great sandwich! It made my day!
(Lisa PEREZ, USA, on IUOMA)

Thank you for the TALISMAN painting on the envelope. It is real cool and creepy at the same time. I haven’t seen a piece of abstract capture such as pain and emotion so well since I visited the museum of art in Toledo. Bravo!
(Sarah Jo Pender, USA, from the Indiana Women’s Prison)

I suppose you could characterize Guido's painting style as expressionist. I know he is very interested in dreams as a source for art and poetry, and these particular chapter pages seem like shadowy dream corridors filled with shifting images and scenes. The Michaux quotes work as a counterpoint, Guido's art is taking over when the limits of language have been reached.
(De Villo Sloan, USA, on my tribute pages to Henri Michaux, see LAMUSAR blog)

Guido’s art expressions are always poems and they show us the reality of our real faces and souls (Mariana Serban, Romania)

His titles have both inspired and educated me (Alicia Starr, USA)

zondag 19 juni 2011

THE 3 MOTHERS



Large woodglue painted envelope for the cinema project of Angela Gattuso.
Okay this needs some explanation. The work is not linked with a movie but with a trilogy of horror movies made by the Italian director Dario Argento, a real genius, but not for the fainthearted ones.
He worked on the theme of the 3 mothers, symbols of all what is evil, pain and suffering in the universe:
MATER LACHRYMARUM
MATER SUSPIRIORUM
MATER TENEBRARUM
These figures remind us of the Greec Erinyen or the Roman Furiae but not completely because these goddesses of revenge persecuted the guilty while the mothers persecute the innocent ones, so they are perhaps closer to the witches of fate in MacBeth.
They are pure evil and Argento made some incredible movies based on these characters:
SUSPIRA (in 1977)
INFERNO (in 1980)
LA TERZA MADRE aka The Mother of Tears (in 2007). With the last movie Dargento had no or little conflict with censorship; so the murders in this one are quite brutal and awful to watch!
The characters of the mothers are rooted in old litterature (the work of Thomas de Quincey, 1785-1859). In a way I like that these monsters are portrayed as mothers.
We have a sugarcoated version of mothers in our culture while reality is sometimes different. Because of that society cannot cope with mother monsters.
Mothers killing their own babies, mothers helping their pedophile husbands to rape and murder children. The case of the wife of Dutroux is "exemplary" on that level.
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