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Franz Borghese is the real painter. Differently, for example, from Mino Maccari,
he does not like to minimize his engagement as artist. In fact he considers his
work as life itself, and not as a joke. He brings up all his resources for the
best of his innate skill, in a "Catherine-wheel" of whimsical stories,
landing at the fantastic, and never falling into the cynical caricature. His
colours are antiheroic, Franz Borghese does not concede to the observer any
surprise. The chromatic choices, in fact, apply to an essential fan of
possibilities. We may suspect - why to deny it ? - he is afraid of what is
unusual, unforeseen, since he is too inclined to an excessive lyrism, he nearly
refuses to confess, becuase of his modesty, a soft romanticism after all. The
chromatic range, does not go beyond yellow, red, black, white, seldom blue and
sky-blue. This is nearly a monochromatic range for his enchanted inventions. The
research of Borghese always presents itself to the observer in figurative terms
of full stylistic coherence. Elegant painter, he never goes out of the guard
position. Because of his modesty, because of his politeness ? In our opinion,
brecause of both things. His painting school is a first-rate school, daughter of
a hand that decides the first movement when the work is already mentally
completed.. His laboratory is made of paint-brushes, pens, brush-pens,
water-colours, faesite boards, as support. These are the instruments of his
thought, which make the painted man or woman, the angel, the devil, the good,
person, the awkward person, more than the bad person. For Borghese, in fact,
Evil does not exist. The moral categories, for him, are always deliciously
interchangeable. And, maybe, more than two.
Milan,
1993
Paolo Levi
(Franz
Borghese - Publishing House Selfart)
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