General description:
Roberto Merelli
Born in Venice in 1936 "new figurative"
The master Roberto MERELLI has died in Venice on 30 November 2009, had 73 years.
He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italian cities abroad. Among the numerous awards and accolades, the invitation in 1968 to the XXXIV Venice Biennale, for the series "Visual Arts". He attended the Free School of Nude Academy of Venice.
Roberto Merelli's in the same feverish and frenetic pulse of certain artists "sign" of the eighteenth century as Magnasco and Francesco Guardi.
The hand-fast runs, the brush gently follows. The result is a painting - writing that is a succession of flashes of lightning, the svincolature. But this is not an acquisition of culture: it is rather a mode of a biological structure. In this sense it has a stamp categorical: yesterday as today. Passes the time: the taste becomes excited Sche shoots a swordsman of arabesques in the air.
Merelli and Venice he painted views of Venice.
For him, the city is made of light - color: trace are signs that carriers of this partnership. Lightning summarizes the features of the Grand Canal or the Piazza San Marco. There remains the sense of an environment that mobility is everything, all space, all reflexes.
Which theme more suitable than the city Anadyomene? Merelli knows, and dives in the conquest of the painting with a sensuality that is also happy, spontaneous and exhilarating.
A similar painting, you must clearly say so, has risks. It relies, that impression, like wax eighteenth-century music. And 'improvisation that drives the mind of the artist and the wrist. They can get out of the perfect songs, but also works of poor, incomplete, possibly convulsions. Should be clear that the amateur to choose. The gift of grace comes when one least expects it. Merelli feel this gift escape, but occasionally manages to grasp it beautifully.
Some paintings just come to maturity, nothing you could add. The air turns freely sudden flash of light has the color dissolves effortlessly. The feeling is of a great freedom: the freedom not to follow fashions, always fresh, always spontaneous, always true to themselves.
Exactly a gift that we can grasp, holding out his hand. |
