In this publication I would like to to express my
opinion regarding art and in particular, painting; because I do not
belive that improvisation, refused for any artistic form, is
commonly applied to painting. The will or want to create art is
insufficient to be able to create art.
I don’t presume to call myself an artist, other will judge me, but I
have always searched to change the form and methods of painting in my
work. Mine is a continuing search for expression because it is through
painting which I am abe to express myself fully. All art pleasures me,
regardless of the history, modes and styles, and for this I painting
works with are classical, impressionist, cubist, abstract, etc… I have
always looked to pass beyond the period and style, in the searching for
beautiful in everything. Whether I paint a still life, a city, or a
spacial composition; the contents are the motives for a creative
compilation that gives me an intimate aesthtetic satisfaction.
I prepare myself the canvas, tables, and paper, and I fill them with
color that sometimes represents a figure, or a city, or an abstract, or
anything else, bringing out from deep within me a composition that
satisfies to my eye and gratifies momentarily my senses; stressing
momentarily because I always have the necessity to go beyond and pass on
to another canvas to paint, and another still, and this I follow. I
permitted myself to express my thoughts without crtical mediation,
because I am convinced that a visual work must be sufficient to
understand without the help of words, becaues words cannot replace the
image.
The work lies there nude, displayed completely without inhibition, does
not have hidden parts to discover. Conceptual works does not have
hidden parts to be discovered. Conceptual works, which do not have one
to one corrispondance beteween concept and image, is not, in my opinon,
a work of art.
What does conceptual art mean? Maybe in primitive art, Egyptian, Greek,
Roman, Renassance, concepts weren’t expressed? And so, if the
“Creazione di Adamo” by Michealangelo and the “Merda d’Artista” (shit in
a bottle) by Manzoni are the same thing, there is something that isn’t
right; if the “Cena ad Emmaus” by Caravaggio and a dirty cartoon by
Schifano are the same thing; there is something that doesn’t fit. As
professor Zecche says: “if everything is art, nothing is art.”
In conclusion, I say that it isn’t enough to have a thought or a concept
in order to realize a work of art. A still life, a figure, a landscape
or an abstract painting does not become a work of art only for their
content, but for the way in which they were painting. As for me, I have
the sensation that there isn’t enough time to paint everything that I
would still like to realize. I think my most beautiful painting is one,
which I still have to paint.
