Roberto Lazzarini (1951) - Odres

Roberto Lazzarini (Italy 1951)
Painting on panel in tactile acrylic
Work signed
With certificate of authenticity
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Bio - Roberto Lazzarini was born in Massarosa in 1951, his roots are firmly threaded in Versilia, a stone’s throw from the sea. His artistic path begins at a young age, in continual research and experimentation; those who know him personally would say: a troubled soul who does not clash with an artistic spirit. The early works with an expressive stamp already reveal a strong personality and a creative impulse that bursts forth in the use of color. The chromatic mixtures are energetic, decisive, often contrasting; the paste is rich and tactile. For many years, Lazzarini could not completely detach himself from figuration; he painted men, houses, trees, rivers, animals, inserted in a space of a very particular nature, 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 of the inner reality that materialize on the canvas in a scattered, spontaneous, gestural manner—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 prefers it to the brush, because the mark is sharp, the gesture expresses strength and determination and there is no turning back. As the years go by, he gradually distances himself from figurative representation and begins the path of abstraction, where he seems to have found his way home. Never has color been more expressive, the gesture swift and sure, the forms emerge from the depth of chromatic juxtaposition in a continuous superimposition. The 2008 collages mark the transition toward the search for a depth or three-dimensionality that is no longer illusion and appearance, color wisely dosed on the two-dimensionality of the 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 slightly perceptible.