Lithograph by Paolo Collini, The light is wary

Original lithograph by the artist entitled: la Luce diffidenta / The light is wary. Lithograph signed lower right and numbered 98/125

Made in 1993.
A certificate of authenticity is on the back of this lithograph (see photo)

Paolo Collini:

Paolo Collini's artistic activity took shape during his first personal exhibition in Milan in 1970. In fact, it was in the city where he was born in 1950 that he began his relationship with the art world , a universe where, from the beginning, he evolved in the domain of symbolism and surrealism.

After a period of training during which he explored in particular metaphysical painting and the visions of surrealist masters, his research was oriented towards a dreamlike naturalist vision, nourished by romantic inspirations hiding metamorphoses and enigmas revealing worlds. interiors.

During the 1980s, he moved closer to "citationalism", an artistic movement developed at that time, with a painting rich in mysterious architectures where the "Myth" and the sign of "suspended time" occupy the center of his narration. The house-temple becomes the central point of its exploration, and often, on deep waters, wander emblematic winged figures who hide inviolable secrets, tracking down the signs of a lost or perhaps forgotten classicity, inventing other allusions and symbols.

His love for ethereal atmospheres intensifies when he approaches German collectivism. During this period, traveling frequently, he abandoned the Mediterranean colors for the cold colors of the North and the mysterious foliage of the Black Forest. The sunny hues disappear to give way to a sort of bloodless monochromy, with evanescent azure shades and misty lights with mother-of-pearl transparencies. Nostalgia permeates his works, from the depths of his mind emerge archetypal creatures, symbols of immortal beauty, and waters as deep as the dawn of time, waters that return obsessively in his compositions: they often refer to the silences of the lake (where he had a studio at that time) or to the sea which for him is not only a physical entity, it is much more: it is the symbol of the eternal feminine, of fertility and unfathomable depth and enigmatic.

The 1990s saw the relationship between reality and imagination transform into a pure and changing memory, wandering between Eros and Thanatos, icy pain and eternal doubts which often exceed the limits of reality. He prefers to work at dusk, when the noise of everyday life gives way to nocturnal reflections, listening to the suggestions of music, while the boundaries between reality, memory and dream are often undefined.

In recent years, the city and its outskirts have become the theater of his research, through fragments of images which offer the opportunity to observe the individual and his environment: it is the possibility of entering into a " non-place" of the individual soul, in balance between daily life, often endured, experienced too quickly and violently, and a personal space where time is immobile, a time where we can stay as long as we wish , meditating and moving to return to the real world perhaps a little different from what we were before, certainly enriched and involved as when returning from a trip.

Collini's painting has attracted critical interest for thirty years and has invited him to participate in numerous public and private art events, including the Venice Biennale.

He has held more than eighty personal exhibitions in Italy and abroad, which have been widely commented on in the main newspapers and magazines. Among the publications devoted to him, we can cite the monographs: "Magie antelucane di Collini" by Riccardo Barletta (Ed. Ghirlandina, Modena), "L'enigma della nostalgia" by Mario De Micheli (Ed. Mondadori, Milan) , “Dimore dell’invisibile” by Luciano Caprile (Ed. Vinciana, Milan) and “Paolo Collini” by Mauro Carrera (Ed. MUP, Parma 2015).

Dimensions: 65cm x 44cm

Ref: A94T70C7V6