ALFONSO OSSORIO (1901-1985)

"Everything moves or threatens to do so. Ossorio likes what moves, seethes, surges. He likes also to mix with all this the marks of whiplashes, sheer drops, lightning, bird-flights…. This is generally the form of Ossorio’s pictures: a sort of flower-decked parade float. A most sumptuous parade (the artist has a taste for very sumptuous things) but always equivocal, ad unsure if it wants to transmute whit it envelops into rare and marvelous flowers or to redouble its menacing character. Or both? …"
(J. Dubuffet as quoted in B. H. Friedman, Alfonso Ossorio, New York, 1973, p.45).