Luigi Dantes

QAWA (Angels in heaven)
PAINTING: MIXED TECHNIQUE       
RED (cm 37 x cm 50) - YELLOW (cm 37 x cm 50) - BLUE (cm 37 x cm 50)

Qawa is an ancient African word of Arabic origin, with which it indicates a drink that juice
extracted from the seed of coffee mixed with red wine. Legend has it that Mohammed was rescued by the
Archangel Gabriel to the Prophet perked up with a potion suggested to him by Allah. The drink was dark as
the Holy Black Stone of Mecca. Qawa is a tribute to black culture, a work domain hermetic metaphor angelic
spiritual man, which results in formal concept or sublimation of the coffee bean which distills African images
primitive, totemic, apotropaic masks that refer to magical meanings, occult and mysterious. On the
compositional work is inspired by images of the Sublime visionary, figuration purist Pre-Raphaelite and other
forms of synthetic cubist, more properly to the exemplification of imaginal W. Blake, D. G. Rossetti, A. C.
Modigliani, F. Brancusi and also with the tautological iteration of A. Warhol.