Roberto Lazzarini (1951) - Ciop

Roberto Lazzarini (1951 Italy)
“Ciop”
mixed media on canvas
Hessian cloth applied to create a sculptural effect
2000
60 x 30 cm. cm
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Biography
Roberto Lazzarini was born in Massarosa in 1951, his roots are firmly rooted in Versilia, just a stone's throw from the sea. His artistic path begins from a young age, in constant research and experimentation; those who know him personally would say: a restless spirit who does not oppose an artistic temperament. The first works with an expressive stamp already reveal a strong personality and a creative impulse that erupts in the use of color. The color blends are energetic, decisive, often contrasting; the mixture is rich and tactile. For many years, Lazzarini cannot completely detach himself from figuration; he paints men, houses, trees, rivers, animals, inserted into a space of a very 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 inner reality that materialize on the canvas in a disorderly, spontaneous, gestural way—there is no preparatory drawing, there is no rational scheme, the idea erupts forcefully and invades the canvas space. Lazzarini uses the spatula, preferring it to the brush, because the mark is clean, 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 is quick and sure, the forms emerge from the depth of chromatic contrasts in a continuous layering. The collages of 2008 mark the transition toward a search for depth or three-dimensionality that is no longer illusion and appearance, color skillfully dosed on the two-dimensional surface. With these works, the canvases attached and overlapped one above the other protrude from the frame, creating real shadows and reliefs, even if only subtly perceptible."