Began developing a series of sketches to serve as the basis for larger paintings, experimenting with various materials such as ink, acrylic, pencil, ballpoint pen, and watercolor.
This blend of media and the use of the sketchbook fostered a stream-of-consciousness process; I am working through this by creating a succession of paintings that I view as geological explorations of my inner self—bringing to the surface what lies in my deepest depths.
In this series, I subsequently incorporated materials like glue, tissues, raffia, and cotton to add texture. This ongoing exploration will soon—as I mentioned—be translated onto larger surfaces.
You can watch the creation of these works on my YouTube channel, “Alberto Repetti Artist“; I will also be showcasing them in a dedicated section of this website.
Enjoy watching.
Category Archives: acrylicpainting
Sketchbooks as a form of experimentation
0Painting over a randomly obtained background
0I present two small acrylic landscapes, the result of a fun practice that involves creating shapes by intervening on a random layer of paint, as you can see in this video, organized into steps: first the preparation and choice of colors, then the random application of color on the cards, then viewing the result card by card, and finally the conscious painting on two of the resulting colored cards.
When I say “chance,” of course, I don’t mean the artist’s total absence, but rather the degree of intervention we choose to have on the work we create.
It’s clear that even when we paint abstractly, or when we throw paint onto the canvas, what emerges is always the artist’s intention, even if it’s involuntary. I can throw paint, but the gesture is mine; however, the color can escape me, expand more than expected, create shapes I hadn’t imagined.
Here, however, I want to try a different experience: I want to place the paint on the sheets of paper completely randomly, without seeing it, and therefore completely without my knowledge. The colors will be mixed without my direct control, and the final result will serve as a starting point for observing how this can be possible if we deem it necessary to invent something from a random pictorial expression.
The result we’ll achieve in the two paintings I’ll make, based on the suggestion of random shapes, stems from this very process.
Acrylic on Cardboard, 14,8 x 10,5 cm
Summer Flowers
0Acrylic Painting and Ballpoint Pen on Cardboard, 23,8 x 23 cm, August 2023
Summer Flowers Detail
“Nature Series” Number 30
0Acrylic on Canvas Paper, 29,7 x 21 cm, May 2021
This is the fourth painting process of the Steve Somerset (Music) and Alberto Repetti (Painting)project, named:
“I Hear What You’ll See You See What I Hear”
Click on image to enlarge it and HERE to go to see the birth and the process of the painting
Video project, part Four
0“I Hear What You’ll See You See What I Hear” A project by Steve Somerset (Music) and Alberto Repetti (Painting)
Steve Somerset Music Improvisation Four
Alberto Repetti Painting Nature Series #30
Questo progetto è nato da una collaborazione fra me e Steve Somerset.
La sua musica composta espressamente per 5 video che verranno caricati su youtube e che rappresentano un corpus unico di una analisi fra suono e immagine, fra due paesaggi, due tessiture collegate dall’idea di spazialità, di ricostruzione dell’ambiente naturale creando una sintesi formale che racchiude tutti gli elementi della creazione.
This project was born from a collaboration between me and Steve Somerset.
His music composed expressly for 5 videos, that will be uploaded on youtube, and which represent a unique corpus of an analysis between sound and image, between two landscapes, two textures connected by the idea of spatiality, of reconstruction of the natural environment creating a formal synthesis which encompasses all the elements of creation.
“Nature Series” Number 29
0Acrylic on Canvas Paper, 29,7 x 21 cm, May 2021
This is the third painting process of the Steve Somerset (Music) and Alberto Repetti (Painting)project, named:
“I Hear What You’ll See You See What I Hear”
Click on image to enlarge it and HERE to go to see the birth and the process of the painting
Nature is all that we inevitably perceive culturally as a landscape.
This series of paintings is precisely about this word, landscape, more about the very idea of reconstructing a memory of the landscape.
To represent the idea of the landscape is to represent the idea of depth and illusion of our sight.
The word evokes in itself all the cultural experience of it and requires a personal elaboration to the point of almost refusing the mere reference to the natural in order to enter the objective dimension of what defines the term, within each of us, but it is not the landscape. .
For me, landscape is the same word that we invented to define it that does not define it because it does not define, except in a vague and approximate way, a concept interior, impossible to describe.
In this regard and as a corollary of this, it is interesting to read the pamphlet by Alberto Cagnato on the origins of the landscape, which I propose for a broader personal reflection.
La natura è tutto ciò che inevitabilmente noi percepiamo culturalmente come paesaggio.Questa serie di dipinti è proprio su questa parola paesaggio più sull’idea stessa di ricostruzione di una memoria del paesaggio.Rappresentare l’idea del paesaggio è rappresentare l’idea di profondità e di illusione della nostra vista.La parola evoca in sé tutta l’esperienza culturale di esso e necessita un’elaborazione personale fino quasi a rifiutare il mero riferimento al naturale per entrare dentro la dimensione oggettiva di ciò che ne definisce il termine dentro a ciascuno di noi ma non è il paesaggio.Per me, paesaggio, è la stessa parola che abbiamo inventato per definirlo che non lo definisce perchè non definisce se non in maniera vaga e approssimativa un concetto solo interiore, impossibile da descrivere.A questo proposito e a corollario di questo è interessante leggere il pamphlet di Alberto Cagnato sulle origini del paesaggio, che vi propongo per una più ampia riflessione personale.
Nature Series #29
0Acrylic on Canvas Paper, 29,7 x 21 cm, May 2021
“I Hear What You’ll See You See What I Hear” A project by Steve Somerset (Music) and Alberto Repetti (Painting)
Steve Somerset Music Improvisation Three
Alberto Repetti Painting Nature Series #29
Questo progetto è nato da una collaborazione fra me e Steve Somerset.
La sua musica composta espressamente per 5 video che verranno caricati su youtube e che rappresentano un corpus unico di una analisi fra suono e immagine, fra due paesaggi, due tessiture collegate dall’idea di spazialità, di ricostruzione dell’ambiente naturale creando una sintesi formale che racchiude tutti gli elementi della creazione.
This project was born from a collaboration between me and Steve Somerset.
His music composed expressly for 5 videos, that will be uploaded on youtube, and which represent a unique corpus of an analysis between sound and image, between two landscapes, two textures connected by the idea of spatiality, of reconstruction of the natural environment creating a formal synthesis which encompasses all the elements of creation.
Nature series #27
0Acrylic on Canvas Paper, 29,7 x 21 cm, May 2021
You can see the birth and creation of this painting, clicking HERE, on my youtube channel, where you can watch the first video of the 5 that are part of the project:
I HEAR WHAT YOU’LL SEE YOU SEE WHAT I HEAR
By Steve Somerset and Alberto Repetti
“I Hear What You’ll See You See What I Hear” A project by Steve Somerset (Music) and Alberto Repetti (Painting)
2Steve Somerset Music Improvisation One
Alberto Repetti Painting Nature Series #27
Questo progetto è nato da una collaborazione fra me e Steve Somerset.
La sua musica composta espressamente per 5 video che verranno caricati su youtube e che rappresentano un corpus unico di una analisi fra suono e immagine, fra due paesaggi, due tessiture collegate dall’idea di spazialità, di ricostruzione dell’ambiente naturale creando una sintesi formale che racchiude tutti gli elementi della creazione.
This project was born from a collaboration between me and Steve Somerset.
His music composed expressly for 5 videos, that will be uploaded on youtube, and which represent a unique corpus of an analysis between sound and image, between two landscapes, two textures connected by the idea of spatiality, of reconstruction of the natural environment creating a formal synthesis which encompasses all the elements of creation.
