Sylvia Cossich Goodman 
painter and stone sculptor
 
 

From Giuliana Donzello Art critic from the book "Scritti d'Arte, studi, profili, recensioni" published by Aletti editore Italy (translated)

 

.."Her figures, her compositions are alive today with spiritual and operative energy which is the sign of a process of slow and progressive maturation, they speak lucidly of a serenity which is harmony with the past, synonymy with the future, equilibrium with the environment.  They display a variety of plastic forms and poetic realities, the result of a diverse research, rich in spirit and interior strength: a production woven with invisible threads which tie one sculpture to the other and these to the “sculptured paintings”, and the forms between them, repeating always different, respectful of a sense of intimacy and sensibility to the caress or air.

 Formed by detached elements and still tight in the continuity of the body, the reclining figures, closed in one block articulated in emptiness and fullness, dressed in light and shadow, they live in a grooved sculpture and they all find a measure of perfect harmony and power intheirdimension. 

In her latest creations, the sculptress seems to be searching for the beauty and, above all, the power of expression. Because, as Moore teaches us, “if the first pleases the senses, the second possesses a spiritual vitality which (…) goes in profundity”. And, like in Moore, the theme of the reclining figure, or seated, is always a feminine body repeated infinite times, loaded with variations and metamorphosis that make one work different from the other.  It represents, in the most beautiful way, the human body, the woman, the plastic relation between full and empty, the tri-dimensional creation of space, the nature where the female body reclines to become landscape.