The Quest of Assunta Cassa for Delight and Dynamic Beauty 

Sensuality, movement, technique whose gesture, form and matter are scented with the carnal thrill of dance it conveys, compelling it on the eye, calling out to it and enticing the viewer, the recipient of the work who is dazed by an emotion stronger than delighted connection, and feels the inner turmoil triggered by the virtuous explosions of colour and matter. The subject, the dance, the movement, the steps that shift continuous existence, igniting a split second and fixing it forever on the canvas. Dynamic eroticism, rising yet immobile, fast, uncontrollable in mind and in passion, able to erupt in a flash and unleash the fiercest emotion, the sheer giddiness of the most intense perception. Observing the work of Assunta Cassa is like a return to original sin, emotionally speaking, a experience of deep sensual immersion in the colour whirlwind and pulsating movements of the figures, but also of a space that participates and fills the no-man’s-land of this probing, gratifying pursuit of beauty.

Beauty is experienced in the purity of its emotions, but also almost impetuously, like the soft and sensual touch of skin, precisely for the ease with which it is sensed. Gentle sentiment and erotic trait together, speaking the same language of expression, chasing each other, fusing together, attacking one another, and managing to talk thanks to the emotional world that rears up when least expected, reaching the apex and tracing out perceptual geometries that perhaps no one thought could be experimented. 

The art of Assunta Cassa has something primal in its emotional factor, no one should miss the thrill of experiencing her works in person, absorbing some of that passion, which enters the mind first and then sinks deeper into the spheres of perception. Sensuality and love, tenderness and passion, move with and in the dancing figures, which surprise with their natural seeking of pleasure in the gesture, the beauty of producing a human movement, again with sheer spontaneity, finding the refined aesthetic sense in the eroticism of the dance. The unwritten pleasure is impossible not to express: it is sought, deliberately imprinted with colour so that the recipient of the opus may be drawn into this sense of beauty flowing across the skin of one who has managed to impose the normality of a woman experiencing emotions for the eroticism of the dance, in keeping with a sense that has to do with the impossible taste of being wordless before the beauty of life. The beauty of life, the joy of life, however, do not always win: melancholy is sometimes a tangible note in some works, but again naturally. Every age of life must be experienced, and painter Assunta Cassa shows a depth and awareness that every moment must be faced and lived with a unique emotional perspective, linked to the vital act that is innate to painting. Now it becomes impossible not to appreciate the opus in which the subject is not only dance and joyous vitality, but also the constant quest for meaning that accompanies and must accompany very minute of a truly authentic existence, whether joyful or not. 

Cassa is a complete painter and before that she is a woman who has a developed sense of her own life and pictorial quest. Perceiving the nuances that pulsating emotions drive across her work is like feeling a shiver that travels up the spine to the head, from the eyes – the instrument of perception – that feed the entire body with a strong, discreet sensuality. Technically everything addresses this research, the use of matter that appears and then rarefies itself with deliberate or unconscious desire, to the use of the palette, a purposeful chromatic range sought with the gentle energy of conveying something that arrives promptly and brings delight. This is an aesthetic fact of great depth. No research should exclude the artist’s own awareness of being a medium acting through their art. When the subject is broken down into precise points, Cassa does so in her sense of exploration and there is the power to give a meaning to be found in the geometric attempt to rationalize this complete inner flow that arrives at the boundless outcome of departure, where a train is the existentiell image of opportunity. We cannot know with precision what Assunta Cassa feels when she paints a train, but perhaps it invokes and crystallizes a chance, an opportunity, an ongoing investigation, first existentiell – daily – and then existential, the overall meaning of life. 

Were she to accelerate the dynamism when she disassembles, when she imposes a perceptual pace, when she arranges a chromatic order, it would not be a rhetorical but a spontaneous and natural process. It may seem obvious, at this point, but talking about emotions, passions and life is not obvious and there is no process for doing so. Assunta Cassa has her own incredibly successful method for making us feel this, regardless of whether we have experienced the emotion or occurrence, but it is a journey that persuades us to cross the no-man’s-land between body and mind, perceptions and emotions, mind and heart, fusion and quest in this perpetual pursuit, like two dancers who look at each other as they dance.