Giorgio Vaiani Lisi - Etruscan Memories - Tusna (Cigno)

Giorgio Vaiani Lisi (Arezzo, 1978), Etruscan Memories-Tusna (Cigno), 2017, mixed media (acrylic, enamel, oxides, natural earths, encaustic) on canvas 149.5x49.5x4.5 cm, signed and titled on the back. No frame (the work has a thick shoulder of 4 cm, allowing it to be hung without a frame).
Exhibitions: Giorgio Vaiani Lisi - Etruscan Memories, solo exhibition, Galleria d'Arte Piero Della Francesca, Arezzo, June 3 - September 30, 2017; Casati Arte Contemporanea, September 22, 2017, Expo Arte Montichiari, Booth 14, featuring works by Bernard Aubertin, Clementine Bal, Gino Marotta, Achille Perilli, Lorenzo Piemonti, Pino Pinelli, Emilio Scanavino, Tino Stefanoni.
Documentation: Artist's authentication and archive on photo. Excellent condition, no damage, minor defects (see photo).
Provenance: from the artist's studio.
Biography: Giorgio Vaiani Lisi was born in 1978 in Arezzo, where he lives and works. Self-taught, he is interested in archaeology, paleontology, semiology, and symbolism, and began painting and sculpting around the age of twenty, although this activity remained private for a long time. His first publicly exhibited works are from 2012, consisting of material works of purely informal origin that range from painting to sculpture.
In 2015, the artist began creating compositions of signs that resemble true cryptic alphabets, a cycle called 'Crypticvs' that started in 2015 and is still evolving. Inspired by the symbolic aspect of art, which finds its expression in hieroglyphs and extends to modernity through works by major 20th-century artists such as Giuseppe Capogrossi, Riccardo Licata, and Antoni Tàpies.
In the same period, he dedicated himself to studying the languages of ancient civilizations and in 2016 presented the cycle Etruscan Memories, focused on the symbolic and evocative aspect of the Etruscan language, represented through paintings and sculptures that combine expressive power and visual purity, evoking a sense of space-time suspension in the viewer. Giorgio Vaiani Lisi's works are versatile, connected by the presence of letters, words, signs, and symbols, sometimes archetypal, used as conceptual tools to connect subjects and different contexts through a variety of techniques, supports, and materials. These are often enhanced by the craquelé effect achieved with epoxy resins and encaustic painting, which evoke the passage of time through the deterioration of the material. In this cycle of works, references to the works of artists such as Alberto Burri, Anselm Kiefer, and Jannis Kounellis are evident.
The poet Evaristo Seghetta Andreoli writes about him.
It could only have been born in Arezzo, the city of 'Mecenas atavis edite regibus' from Orazio's memory (Mecenas descended from ancient kings), Giorgio Vaiani Lisi, a young painter but with a beautiful and solid experience in his art, versatile and inclined, as he is, to the genius manuality of the plastic arts. Well, in Giorgio, there runs 'Rasna' (Etruscan) blood because the interpretation he is giving to his ancestral sensations could only bring us back to that particular world of refinement and taste that was that of the Etruscans. Giorgio Vaiani Lisi works on the modern re-exposition of the Tyrrhenian vases, with the dark color that hints at oxidation, black and brown of the bucchero, only he reproduces it on canvas, thus on a flat surface, more readable, more theatrical. He enriches that ocean of relief waves with letters of the Etruscan alphabet in antique gold patina and filigree. This artist takes us back to the nights of the cities of the Dodecapolis and plays with the souls of the twenty-first century to remind us that beauty and mystery are timeless.
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