2:32 pm - August 4, 2023 - Alberto Repetti

Five Soundscapes in Search of a Landscape

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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

Categories: abstract landscape, Landscape, nature, nature series, steve somerset Tags: Acrylic painting, alberto repetti, art collaboration, artistic project, Landscape, painting, painting and music, painting with the music, steve somerset

12:15 pm - May 31, 2021 - Alberto Repetti

“Nature Series” Number 29

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Acrylic on Canvas Paper, 29,7 x 21 cm, May 2021

Nature series number 29
A Landscape made in Acrilyc on canvas paper. Represent a brown dark hill in a sky wth light clouds

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.

Categories: acrylicpainting, Landscape, livepainting, nature, nature series, painting, paintinglive, paintings, shadowcabinet, steve somerset Tags: alla prima, alla prima painting, art process, artprocess, dipinto dal vivo, Landscape, live painting, pittura di paesaggio, steve somerset

12:58 pm - October 24, 2020 - Alberto Repetti

“I HEAR WHAT YOU’LL SEE YOU SEE WHAT I HEAR” 5 pieces of music (Improvisations 1 – 5) And The Nature Series Painting

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The Natures Series is enriched with important elements for understanding the development of my landscape research.
The collaboration between me and Steve Somerset allowed for a live streaming on facebook where his music compositions (Improvisation 1 – 5), created specifically for this project, developed together with my paintings.

This has allowed a true connection between painting and music that take place in a definite time, giving the viewer the opportunity to witness the construction of the work of art and a better understanding of its inspiration and its project.
The five pieces of music have suggested the structure and evolution of the work and in the same way my way of working suggested the music that proceeded in unison with the genesis of the paintings.