Roberto Lazzarini (1951) - Cip

Roberto Lazzarini (born 1951, Massarosa) Italy
“Cip”
mixed media on canvas
Jute canvas applied like sculpture
2000
60 x 30 cm
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Biografia
Roberto Lazzarini was born in Massarosa in 1951; his roots are deeply branched in Versilia, just a stone’s throw from the sea. His artistic path begins at a young age, in constant research and experimentation; those who know him personally would say: a troubled soul who does not clash with an artistic spirit. The early works bearing expressionist timbre already reveal a strong personality and a creative impulse that bursts forth in the use of color. The chromatic blends are energetic, bold, often contrasting; the mix is rich and tactile. For many years, Lazzarini could not fully detach from figuration; he painted men, houses, trees, rivers, animals, inserted into a space of a wholly particular kind, where color dominates over form. His paintings have no compositional order and do not follow the rules of perspective; they are images of the mind and the inner reality that materialize on the canvas in a scattered, spontaneous, gestural order. There is no preparatory drawing, no rational scheme; the idea erupts forcefully and invades the space of the canvas. Lazzarini uses the spatula, preferring it to the brush, because the mark is clear, the gesture expresses strength and determination, and there is no going back. As the years pass, he gradually moves away from figurative representation and begins the path of abstraction, where he seems to have found his home. Never has color been more expressive, the gesture fast and sure, the forms emerge from the depth of chromatic adjacencies in a continual superimposition. The 2008 collages mark the transition toward a search for a depth or three-dimensionality that is no longer illusion and appearance, color wisely dosed on the two-dimensional surface. With these works, the canvases attached and overlapped one atop the other protrude from the frame, creating shadows and real reliefs even if only subtly perceptible.