Francisco Bertipaglia - Geometria dell’incontro

About Bertipaglia

Francisco Bertipaglia's themes always unfold within the trauma of ecological and moral disintegration.
Presenting the issue of the modern, technological world that contributes to a continuous and poignant isolation. Violence, war, drugs, ecology, and AIDS are subjects that Bertipaglia paints to violently denounce the sad and anguished condition of humanity; in works dedicated to these themes Bertipaglia offers no respite, gives no sense of redemption, denounces the unsolvable drama of the lost self so despairingly. His paintings seem extrapolated from the terrible Dantean circles; Hell is not mere fantasy but the terrible life condition that man has produced for other men. The value of these works lies in the fact that Francisco Bertipaglia, while openly denouncing these situations, cradles an art technically flawless—these most devastating characters—to lift them up and help us consider them victims. Being the same sensitive and poetic painter, he grants himself some alternatives by painting other canvases, where the reds of blood become delicate pinks, where the cold greys become blue, where his furious drawing transforms into a delicate embroidery and seems to become the other miraculous Dantean tale: "the
"Paradise." Faces of women, angelic butterflies free, and games of struggles among animals, are other themes that Bertipaglia paints. It is in these paintings, imbued with delicate sensitivity, that Bertipaglia views with optimism the continuation of life. (Pericle Fazzini)

On the Work

This painting speaks through impacts, crossings, and imperfect containment.
The shapes look like volumes trying to stay together without ever really coinciding: they brush against each other, they overlap, they are crossed by black lines that do not close but insist, like recurring thoughts.
The dominant red acts as the emotional field: it’s not just a background, it’s tension, warmth, urgency. Inside, the orange and pink blocks seem like affective or identitarian nuclei, while the transparencies suggest permeability, unstable boundaries.
It is a dynamic, almost precarious balance: a composition that does not seek to resolve itself, but to stay in motion.