THE POETRY OF VASILE VOICULESCU. SYMBOL, DISCOURSE, ICONOGRAPHY
THE POETRY OF VASILE VOICULESCU. SYMBOL, DISCOURSE, ICONOGRAPHY

Summary/Abstract: Vasile Voiculescu resorts to a vocabulary that has no aesthetic tradition. His poetic word reflects, on one hand, a contingent reality and, on the other, it transfigures it, it restores a degree of ideality to it, a hidden facet that can only be retrieved through a poetic "reading" of the world. Voiculescu perceives with unexpected intensity the drama of language which is unable to represent reality without flaw, integrally, with its many-sided facets, as he lucidly records the subtle relationship between expressed and unexpressed, between nameable and unnamable. The exuberant diversity of allegories, together with the uttermost plasticity of parables in Voiculescu’s poetry translate the ideal into the terms of the real. Harsh, unrefined, succulent words appear to address the sense of taste more than aesthetic perception. However, there is a specific grace of detail and stylization, like in the art of reverse glass icon-painting, that renders lyrical images hieratic. Heavy materiality, elementary force and Botticellian hieratism are combined in a new poetic flow. The poetic word is also a revelation of the world's original dimensions, a mirroring, in a small sonorous space, of the boundlessness of the universe. But the word is also the one that incorporates in its fragile pattern human emotions of an overwhelming diversity: love, hate, distortion, rebellion, nostalgia, suaveness.

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