Roberto Lazzarini (1951) - Ciop

Roberto Lazzarini (1951, Massarosa) Italy
“Amico mio”
mixed media on canvas
2000
60 x 30 cm
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Artwork signed on the back; certificate of authenticity from the De Lauretis Art gallery
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 began at a young age, in continuous research and experimentation; anyone who knows him personally would say: a troubled soul who does not oppose an artistic spirit. The early works with an expressionist stamp already show a strong personality and a creative impulse that manifests in the use of color. The chromatic blends are energetic, decisive, often contrasting, the texture is rich and material. For many years, Lazzarini could not completely detach from figuration; he painted men, houses, trees, rivers, animals, inserted in a space entirely particular, where color prevails over forms. 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 disorderly, spontaneous, gestural way, there is no preparatory drawing, there is no rational scheme, the idea erupts and invades the space of the canvas. Lazzarini uses the spatula, preferring it to the brush, because the mark is sharp, the gesture expresses strength and determination and there is no turning 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 way home. Never has color been more expressive, the gesture fast and sure, the forms emerge from the depth of chromatic juxtaposition in a continual 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 on top of the other, protrude from the frame, creating real shadows and reliefs even if slightly perceptible.