Home Biography Female world Portraits Dreams Landscapes Literature Costa Crociere Graphic Logos Myths Critique Exhibitions E-mail   DREAMS The clepsydra-woman 2000 water-colour, cm 29x29 private collection M. Camia Flora 2001 water-colour, cm 28x28 Two sisters in the Customs Officer's dream 2005 acrylic, oil, alchyd on six assembled canvas, total size cm 170x150 "Two sisters in the Customs Officer's dream" represents the synthesis and the reiteration of many former Bixio's works, but also the osmotic passage from the conscious level to the oneiric one, revealing adhesion to Freud's psychoanalytic theories. It is not by chance that the subject hints openly, both in the structure and in the emotional alchemy, to the "Dream" by Rousseau "the Customs Officer", including the play to dissimulate animals in the redundant vegetation. Bixio's reference to this artist, considered "primitive", intends to stress the consonance with his existential and aesthetic intuition, expressed through a personalized painting language, that could be defined as "post-naif". The oneiric component is always present in Bixio's works: they may be dealing with dreamed dreams or with daydreams, and the title does not necessarily makes explicit reference to this feature. Actually, all of his works are voyages inside the unconscious, they are mirages, desires, regrets, escapes towards Neverland. Neverland 1994   above oil and gold on canvas, cm 50x50 above An April night dream 2001 water-colour, cm 28x28 The lie-dream 1994   below water-colour, cm 35x35 on the side At dawn, thinking of an eagle lost among the apricot-trees in Gulsehir Oteli 1993 oil on canvas, cm 50x50 private collection M. Gandolfo on the side Full winter night dream 1994 oil on canvas, cm 50x50 private collection P. Ivaldi The representation of the Artist's dreams interlaces with others personal sources of inspiration. In this case the reference to Shakespeare is transparent, as well as to the painter Henri Rousseau. It is equally evident that, around the female body, the forest is swarming with entities: animals, objects, not immediately recognizable. An allegory of life, in which one has to look beyond the appearance to reveal its essence.