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.
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
Acrylic 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
Steve Somerset (Music) and Alberto Repetti (Painting)
present the project in live streaming:
“I HEARD WHAT YOU’LL SEE, SEE WHAT I FEEL “
STEVE SOMERSET‘s music and ALBERTO REPETTI’s painting will merge together on the evening of October 22nd:
at 8pm UK time and 9pm Italian time.
You can follow the event on Alberto Repetti’s Facebook page
a unique event, which you cannot miss!
Born during a live session, this series defines my understanding of the very nature of painting as documentation of the very nature of time.
Linked to the need for constriction of the live session, the construction of the images takes place in a precise temporal sequence and constitutes the work of art regardless of the number of sheets.
The whole session is a unique work and testimony of the formal act because it is documented and therefore interpretable in its expressive technical development.
More than the masters, given that having them is fundamental, it is important that the education of a draughtsman or painter is, in youth , surrounded by people with whom to share their progress and passions.
Without this factors combination, in the future, will be very complicated to have a critical view of one’s work, which must be impartial, rigorous and never lenient, always.
I can not lie and make fun of the public, presenting works that are not satisfactory and credible from a technical and formal point of view, because the public is disarmed, and, in front of a benevolent criticism can be easily manipulated.
This is so, i know, because in the audience, I am there too.
Più che i maestri, dato che averli è fondamentale, è importante che l’educazione di un disegnatore o di un pittore sia, in gioventù, circondata da persone con cui condividere i propri progressi e le proprie passioni.
Senza questa combinazione di fattori, in futuro, sarà molto complicato avere una visione critica del proprio lavoro, che deve essere imparziale, rigoroso e mai indulgente, sempre.
Non posso mentire e prendere in giro il pubblico, presentando opere che non sono soddisfacenti e credibili da un punto di vista tecnico e formale, perché il pubblico è disarmato e, di fronte a una benevola critica, può essere facilmente manipolato.
È così, lo so, perché tra il pubblico ci sono anch’io.
The search for levity is very difficult but it is a practice to be preserved. It is a bad thing to use the terms from one artistic practice to another but the timbre and musicality are what comes closest to the awareness unawareness of the painting.
Oil and Acryilic Painting on a Photo Print 25 x 20,7 cm, 2019 April
Procreate’s Digital Painting. 1284 x 1129 px 300 dpi, January 2019
The landscape is fully realized in the second half of the nineteenth century. The legacy left by painters, for example, like Constable is enormous and it is not easy to paint a landscape without confront with these giants. However I feel the need to bring on the paper or on the tablet screen the suggestions that the spectacle of nature continues to give. Perhaps someone one day surely will know how to date these works of mine from elements that today completely escape me.
Oil on Canvas, 50 x 60 cm, September 2018
When I was commissioned this painting I had in my eyes the volutes of the skies of Normandy and the harrowing sensation of an event that was shaking my city, Genoa. In this cloud there are the events of those days that turn into the will to represent them, in the gestures, in the brush strokes are blurred or decided, but not to transfer the burden of a totalizing experience in the subject. Therefore, the pain or the pleasure remain inside of me and are projected outside, not in the painting, but in the medium yes, to the end, with the need to build an almost mystical practice with the object through I can represent my idea of world.
Quando mi è stato commissionato questo dipinto avevo negli occhi le volute dei cieli di Normandia e la sensazione straziante di un accadimento che stava scuotendo la mia città, Genova. In questa nuvola ci sono gli accadimenti di quei giorni che si tramutano nella volontà di rappresentarli, nei tratti del pennello siano sfumati o decisi, ma non di trasferire nel soggetto il carico di un’esperienza totalizzante. Quindi, il dolore o il piacere rimangono dentro di me e si proiettano al di fuori, non nel dipinto, ma nel medium si, fino in fondo con la necessita di costruire una pratica quasi mistica con l’oggetto.
This portrait is important because show the peculiarity of the painting that seem out of focus but in real is very focused. It is realized with a different technique from that used by crawling the brush to get a blurred effect. Instead the effect is obtained by many small brush strokes that allow me to get a really disorienting effect for the eyes. It’s a real technical challenge that has a rendering impossible to make with a simple photograph. Click on the image.
Alberto Repetti Artist 