Gilberto Piccinini
Identity and affinity

Profound research into nature has enabled Gilberto Piccinini to appraise and transport into art form the uninterrupted, perpetual flow of the sea’s waves. Thus begins the artist’s dedication towards rendering the sacredness of nature in all its beauty, as well as in its most cruel manifestations. His seascapes unfold in continual mutation, spellbinding and astounding. Their pictorial intensity varies always, whether in luminosity or in the blending of the tones.
Piccinini’s representations of sea and waves affect the soul to its greatest depths,
a heightening of life’s experience which in pictorial language becomes the emblem of identity and affinity.
The sea is rendered through unperceivable and perceivable water movements, with surges that rise up from the depths until they reach the waves on the surface.
He paints his thoughts and memories. The mind’s ramblings sometimes liberate strong emotions, such as moments of torment, and at these times the thirst for passion must be quenched by an explosion of creativity.
All is transformed in the drawing of the spaces while the tonalities express the innermost concepts of the spirit.
The marine landscapes, released from the rhetoric of classicism, at times stripped bare, appear to us in all their raw reality.
A simple reality, made up of the powerful contrasts between sky and sea, with an intentionally disturbed idealization; and a romantic vision, which at times deceives yet maintains its mysterious fascination.
The waves breaking on the coast have overcome a journey fraught with rocks, stones, crags and obstacles of all kinds, not unlike the life of the Maestro whose path is characterized by all the diverse emotional states that go towards shaping both the artist and the man.

Walter Venanzio