Vernissage
- The Intimacy of a Painting
by
Maria Cristina Buoso
Review
by Maria Teresa De Donato
“Leo turned around and
ordered her to enter the picture with him. As if in a trance, Eva obeyed ...”
(Buoso, p. 9, 2021)
With this sentence
reported in the First Chapter of Vernissage
– The Intimacy of a Painting, Maria Cristina Buoso catapults us, with
this thriller of hers characterized by its smooth language and fast rhythms,
into the world of Art and, more precisely, into that of Painting.
The colors are strong and
with distinctly erotic connotations that attract the readers and intrigue them
from start to finish. The book, through its dynamics of events and the
observation of its characters, solicit the introspective analysis by implicitly
encouraging the readers to live their lives in harmony with their own essence
without subterfuge or false modesty.
Whether it's about living
Love and Sexuality without barriers and/or accepting one's own sexual
orientation without shame and fear, the encouragement, clearly offered through
the lives of the main characters, including artists, is to live an authentic
existence, respecting, manifesting and fully enjoying one's own uniqueness and
nature without limits of any kind and in full awareness. Art, in this case
Painting, is, and if it is not, it must become, a way and a means to achieve
this goal: the total and uninhibited expression of one's own emotions, feelings,
passion, sexuality and eroticism.
An attitude towards
sadomasochism and perversion, the fear of showing one's femininity in the most
genuine and unscrupulous way possible by hiding it, as Police Chief Inspector Ginevra
Lorenzi seems determined to do, as well as that fine line that separates genius
from madness are also aspects that are brought to the reader's attention
through the development of a plot that fascinates, in some respects even
deceives, and finally surprises.
A very interesting
thriller that I recommend – when it comes to themes and language – to an adult
audience.
