Souls of Colours

Filippo Giusti (Italian, b.1990)

Dyvia, 2020

Oil on canvas

81 x 65 in;

207 x 165 cm

Filippo Giusti is a young Italian painter who has entered the art world under the wing of Master Santiago Carbonell (Spanish, b.1960). Filippo worked as a photographer and has been developing his ability for drawing and painting, which makes him a self-taught painter.

For Filippo, portrait is not only a very rigid idea of a persona but also very conditioned by the personal context. Dyvia is a personal type of portrait where he depicts the person with the abstraction and colours to create his version of “portraying”. His hyperrealistic technique coined with the abstraction captures deeper expression of a persona, which is delivered not only what is outside but the personality and the nature of the subject - the inner-self.

Writing from Ginocchio Galeria (https://ginocchio.gallery/)

Claudio Olivieri (Italian, b.1934)

Untitled, 1970

Oil on canvas

39.37 x 51.18 in;

100 x 130 cm

In Claudio Olivieri's view, canvas is a place for experimentation, where dynamic units of colour collide with each other until they find a chromatic and intellectual harmony.

Colour takes on a primary relevance, acquiring its own materiality. Olivieri chases his personal idea of freedom, seizing something intangible and bringing luminescent and ethereal chromatic bodies to life.

Untitled, 1970 is particularly showing his personal idea of freedom. The use of bright yellow, red and dark blue are intermingled together creating an impression of photography. Precisely the kind of photography that was unintended but natural factors made it something special, like the reflection of colours are overlapped, emanating a special hues of the lights.

Writing referenced from Osart Gallery (https://www.osartgallery.com)

Brian Rattiner (American, b.1982)

Teal Sky, 2020

Fluid acrylic, charcoal, graphite, colour pencil, pastel, oil pastel and marker on hand-dyed muslin

65 x 58 in;

165.1 x 147.42 cm

Brian Rattiner’s painting of this series distill the sublimity and the subtlety of nature. Teal Sky represents those ineffable sights and impressions of the night sky. This painting depicts the nights that we don’t confront every other days, and those nights when every lights and particles come together and illuminate the skyscape.

This romantic and elegant composition is supported with a multitude of materials - of fluid acrylic, charcoal, graphite, colour pencil, pastel, oil pastel and marker - that intermingle on a ground of muslin that Rattiner first hand-dyes in clouds of colour.

Writing referenced from Carvalho Park (https://www.carvalhopark.com)