A few days ago Nicole, a writer friend commented that she liked Tony's Abstract Horse, because it gave her a space to dream and tranquility. So today the Blue Horse should be your delight, sometimes also called the Ghost Horse. It actually isn't a real abstraction, because it is all there: the horse, the landscape, the rider with the spear, the speed of a high chase gallop. I can almost feel th wind when I look at it. Sometimes Tony Mafia would fill his canvasses so that they are overflowing, with just here and there a space to escape. Other times he would strip down a canvas or a drawing to the bare essentials. He was always looking for other means of expressing himself and thus challenging us to try and really look at his work so that we feel and understand it.
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