Zbigniew Makowski (1930-2019), WITHOUT TITLE (double-sided drawing), 2013/2016

ink, watercolor/paper, 30.8 x 20 cm (in light passe-partout)
in the composition text in ink: Ma la pittura excelle e signoreggia la musica perché essa non muore immediate dopo la sua creazione, come fa la sventurata musica (...); When Father finished playing and singing (-sometimes) there was silence. It was always terrifying.; Plato's ἔνθᾰ καὶ ἔνθᾰ; Ph. Otto Runge - Erste Figur der Schöpfung. Mystische Kreisfiguration. 1803; - Plato as a Heraclitean! - who would have thought it. On the other hand, Ph. Otto Runge? He had his wife as an Isis. Who would have thought it: she gave birth to Horus! Up to that point, the kόσμος [cosmos] resembled a baleen in which laundry foams! was materia prima quae sola entitas est rerum: David de Dinant. But Plato's model is a nasty wooden hut. Plotinus (Enneada the Fourth): ...then also in the universe there is one harmony, and though it be of contrary things, yet even then it is also of like things, for all things have a common origin, including contrary things."
signed and dated p.d.: Zbigniew Makowski f VI - 2013
on the back described in pencil p.d.: 28.XII.2016 / prob. Altarpiece from Megido (?)