Alex Bertaina's Artist Profile
Alex Bertaina from Cuneo, Italy
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Artist's Statement
A dream deep in my soul A memory often arises in me when I come home, a picture where I see a pristine landscape in which prevails a diffused warm lighting that envelops everything. This desire for unspoiled nature in which man has not yet humanized landscape has been travelling with me since my childhood, when in the jumble of scribbles made by my classmates at school I tried to create my own world clean and tidy. In the works I sense the tension and stress of modern life where nothing ever stands still and we are quickly overwhelmed by the frenzy of passing time. I do not surrender to it and I seek for purity in a contaminated place due to human intervention on the environment , where the profit was not able to defend the territory causing him serious injuries. Antonella Michelon recently wrote "... Sky and sea united as united is our existence between transport towards nature and departure from it because of our discordant lifestyle, but the sea, where everything flows, takes away the fears, the stress and gives us back moments of peace ... "Maybe my sky and my sea are united, as our existence, between transport towards nature and departure from it and they shall treat these wounds. In 1997, Elizabeth Planca wrote "composition that mingles perspective planes in an almost futurist simultaneity but without movement and fury. In their place, the quiet of memory. "I seek for this movement with cuts of light that often cross my works as a guiding light or as big arms wrapped around trees, houses, roads and waterways, segmenting nature and making it react using a juxtaposition of colors. Vertical or horizontal cuts and superimposing interplays, dismantled and dense images that look like rainbow geometries full of light and color; which reflects its vibrancy and brilliance. This is my dreamed landscape. Painting is for me the research and elaboration of this dream. Alex Bertaina
Artist's Statement
A dream deep in my soul A memory often arises in me when I come home, a picture where I see a pristine landscape in which prevails a diffused warm lighting that envelops everything. This desire for unspoiled nature in which man has not yet humanized landscape has been travelling with me since my childhood, when in the jumble of scribbles made by my classmates at school I tried to create my own world clean and tidy. In the works I sense the tension and stress of modern life where nothing ever stands still and we are quickly overwhelmed by the frenzy of passing time. I do not surrender to it and I seek for purity in a contaminated place due to human intervention on the environment , where the profit was not able to defend the territory causing him serious injuries. Antonella Michelon recently wrote "... Sky and sea united as united is our existence between transport towards nature and departure from it because of our discordant lifestyle, but the sea, where everything flows, takes away the fears, the stress and gives us back moments of peace ... "Maybe my sky and my sea are united, as our existence, between transport towards nature and departure from it and they shall treat these wounds. In 1997, Elizabeth Planca wrote "composition that mingles perspective planes in an almost futurist simultaneity but without movement and fury. In their place, the quiet of memory. "I seek for this movement with cuts of light that often cross my works as a guiding light or as big arms wrapped around trees, houses, roads and waterways, segmenting nature and making it react using a juxtaposition of colors. Vertical or horizontal cuts and superimposing interplays, dismantled and dense images that look like rainbow geometries full of light and color; which reflects its vibrancy and brilliance. This is my dreamed landscape. Painting is for me the research and elaboration of this dream. Alex Bertaina
I was born in Turin in 1963 and I live and work in Cuneo (Italy). I am an autodidact painter. Since I was a child drawing has been to me a prime channel of expression, I remember that at school I enjoyed drawing pictures from the incomprehensible scribbling made by my classmates. At the beginning I met the late Marco Lattes, who helped me to correct my watercolourist’s gaps . in the 1980s I attended many impromptus , where I received flattering awards and where I was able to deal with different art forms and artists in depth. In the early 1990's I had almost a close pictorial association with my friend Pierpaolo Giraudo with whom I shared a trip to the Aosta Valley in search of picturesque views. Since 1995 I have expanded my views to the north of Italy, where while participating to various national competitions I met several critics including Professor Umberto Zaccaria, who presented my first monograph. In 2001, I met Jean Louis Droit, a French art dealer, whom opened for me the European scene. Since then it has been a succession of shows! Permanently: Bell Fine Art Gallery, Winchester (UK) www.bellfineart.co.uk Galerie Salamone, Aigues-Mortes (France) http://www.galerie-salamone.com/ Galerie Temps des Arts, Praz sur Arly (France) www.temps-des-arts.com Galerie Vent des Cimes, Grenoble (France) galerie-ventdescimes.com/