When you are in front of Gilberto Piccinini's seascapes you wonder if the sea is the vessel or, on the contrary, it represents the content of something else. Is it the sea that contains the energy of the superior nature or is it the mysterious space which contains the amniotic fluid of the mother goddess. This rhetoric question is synthetically the personal representation of Gilberto Piccinini's Magical Realism.

He is the artist of broken silence, who evokes the origin of life, but also of its natural decadence. An artist of implicit geometry, who can avert his painter's eyes in order to shift his attention towards the sense of the unexpected listening.

In his seascapes, the crystallized and still breaking of the waves extends in the pictorial stroke, while the implied roar dissipates, like in an endless echo, on the emotional level.

"El mar es un antiguo lenguaje que yo no alcanzo a decifrar", said Borges, the sea is an ancient idiom I can't decode. But as the sea unites those very lands it separates, so its pictorial representation helps us to understand better all that is implied between life and the poetics of renewal.
In order to understand fully Piccinini's art one should prepare one's mind to catch the metempsychosis of the ideas and emotions which nourishes the symbology of the public archetype.

Riccardo Gioja