Roberto Lazzarini (1951) - La Vela

Roberto Lazzarini (1951)
Oil on Canvas cm. 93x53
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Biographies
- 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 at a young age, in constant search and experimentation; anyone who knows him personally would say: a restless soul who does not oppose an artistic spirit. The early expressionist-tinged works already reveal a strong personality and a creative impulse that bursts forth in the use of color. The chromatic blends are energetic, decisive, often contrasting; the texture is rich and tactile. For many years, Lazzarini could not completely detach himself from figuration; he painted men, houses, trees, rivers, animals, inserted into a space of a wholly particular nature, where color dominates over forms. His paintings have no compositional order and do not follow the rules of perspective; they are images of the mind and of inner reality that materialize on the canvas in a disorderly, spontaneous, gestural arrangement—there is no preparatory drawing, there is no rational scheme, the idea bursts forth and invades the space of the canvas. Lazzarini uses the spatula, he favors it over the brush, because the mark is decisive, the gesture conveys strength and determination and there is no turning back. As the years go by, he gradually moves away from figurative representation and begins the journey of abstraction, where he seems to have found his home. Never has color been more expressive, the gesture swift and sure, shapes emerge from the depth of chromatic combinations in a continual layering. The collages of 2008 mark the transition toward a search for depth or three-dimensionality that is no longer illusion or appearance, color skillfully balanced on the two‑dimensional surface. With these works, the canvases glued and overlapped one on top of the other protrude from the frame, creating shadows and real reliefs even if only slightly perceptible.