I have a YouTube channel where I mainly talk about pictorial and graphic technique, and it is dedicated to those who are learning to paint and draw, but not only to them, but to all the people who like to deepen their knowledge of artistic technique.
I share on the channel the realisation of a simple painting depicting the glow of the sun of a late autumn morning in the countryside.
Ballpoint Pen on Cardboard, 29,7 x 42 cm, October 2023
Ballpoint pen on cardboard, 140 x 130 cm, October 2023
The landscape has always been a source of research for me, because within it, within the tangle of signs and in the development of forms without man, I see a possibility of a new, ancestral development. It finds itself, represented in my gaze that leads the sign like the gaze of someone who lays their eyes on it without being inside, but always placing themselves on the margins, like a spectator who remains on the sidelines.
The development of the forms full of subtle and incessant strokes reveals its entire construction, the skeleton and casing appear transparent and uncovered in all its parts to give the image a character of creative frenzy, of necessary constructive impetus.
This landscape is placed in a fundamental point of my proposal for reflection on nature, which from here on will carry out a slow and inexorable descent towards depth without ever, as repeatedly repeated, hiding anything of the formal path that allowed its growth.
The smallest sign must be legible and be able to be isolated from the rest in the urgency of transforming the drawing into a path that has a main and sole objective, the recognizability of its chronology within it
Il paesaggio è per me fonte di ricerca da sempre, perchè all’interno di esso, all’interno dell’intrico di segni e nello sviluppo di forme senza l’uomo, io vedo una possibilità di uno sviluppo nuovo, ancestrale. Esso si ritrova, rappresentato nel mio sguardo che conduce il segno come lo sguardo di chi posa gli occhi addosso, senza esserci dentro, ma collocandosi sempre ai margini, come uno spettatore che rimane in disparte.
Lo sviluppo delle forme piene di tratti sottili e incessanti rivela tutta la sua costruzione, scheletro e involucro appaiono trasparenti e scoperti in tutte le sue parti a dare all’immagine un carattere di frenesia creativa, di necessario impeto costruttivo.
Questo paesaggio si colloca in un punto fondamentale della mia proposta di riflessione sulla natura, che svolgerà, da qui in poi una lenta e inesorabile discesa verso la profondità senza mai, come più volte ripetuto nascondere nulla del percorso formale che ne ha permesso la crescita.
Il più piccolo segno deve essere leggibile e poter essere isolato dal resto nell’urgenza di trasformare il disegno in un sentiero che ha un principale ed unico obiettivo, la riconoscibilità della sua cronologia all’interno di esso.
Project by Steve Somerset (Music) and Alberto Repetti (Painting)
This is a video to announce a new, exciting collaboration with musician and composer Steve Somerset titled ‘Five Soundscapes In Search Of A Landscape’ which will premiere in September.
Our creative adventure began two years ago when I produced a series of paintings accompanied by Steve’s improvised guitar pieces.
These were called ‘I Hear What You See, You See What I Hear.’ So what is our new project all about? Steve has created soundscapes which have become the springboard for my five paintings.
I will interpret the music to bring colour and form to the canvas thus creating a unique sound and visual experience.
Steve Somerset’s musical career covers many genres, his most recent being the release of two album under the banner of The Haven Green. ‘To Whom It May Concern’ and ‘ Beyond The Shadow of a Doubt ‘ have received critical acclaim for his songwriting and arranging skills.
We are very excited for you to see our new project and we hope you will enjoy it as much as Steve and I have enjoyed creating it.
So it is with great pleasure that I present the first painting called ‘Dance Of The Unruly Leaves’ . You will experience its creation first hand as the musician influences the painter. Look out for further updates leading up to the unveiling of the full project in September.
We are tremendously proud of this work and we hope you will join us on our voyage of sound and vision.
https://megadodo.bandcamp.com/album/to-whom-it-may-concern https://megadodo.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-shadow-of-a-doubt
Graphite on Cardboard, 115 x 88 cm, January 2022
Acrylic on Canvas Paper, 29,7 x 21 cm, May 2021
Acrylic on Canvas Paper, 29,7 x 21 cm, May 2021
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.
Ballpoint Pen on Cardboard, 14,8 x 10,5 cm, April 2021
Ballpoint Pen on Cardboard, 14,8 x 10,5 cm, February 2021
Ballpoint Pen on Cardboard, 14,8 x 10,5 cm, November 2020
Alberto Repetti Artist 