FRANCESCA ANTONINI GALLERY. CAPRICCIO by RUDY CREMONINI

I choose very little in my work, I don't choose the image to paint, I hardly choose the colors and I don't even choose the level of abstraction to reach. If I had to choose everything, I would lose the moment of surprise when I finish the job and lose the amazement in understanding the meaning of my work. I choose little, I rather try to follow a flow and keep it within certain banks, but I don't know the direction or the goal. (Rudy Cremonini)

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Rudy Cremonini, from Bologna, born in 1981, began painting at the age of 16 by vocation after a Bolognese artist gave him a box of colors. Painter only in oil that he established an intimate relationship with painting based on mutual listening, energy and attention to detail. The artist's paintings are characterized by the dense and sinuous brushstroke in which the color expands on the canvas creating images between the figurative and the abstract. Daily objects, rarefied environments and human bodies, where the fading of forms gives way to an aura of mystery.

Cremonini's creative process derives from primal intuition, which was then transformed into a work of art without losing the original intuitive core. It is precisely this intuitive process that arouses the emotions that users feel when admiring the works of this artist.

The images of him, even if at first rather randomly chosen, in reality all revolve around central themes in Cremonini's work. Protection, control, sacrifice, the price of a safe life and the precariousness of life itself. Time analyzed in its three facets: the nostalgic past, the lacking present and a future that actually does not exist.

The Roman Gallery Francesca Antonini hosts Rudy Cremonini's first personal exhibition, Capriccio, curated by Maria Chiara Valacchi. A large collection that contains some of the main themes of the painter's artistic research: floral compositions, pools and his bodies suspended between full and empty in fluid and watery gestures. In the history of art, the natural theme has often been linked to the iconography of the sublimation of beauty, which over the centuries has been increasingly influenced by the artist's imagination. The "Capriccio" was born in the 16th century, considered by Vasari to be a combination of inspiration and will to action. For Cremonini this process is like a shaman ritual. His intuition makes its way onto the canvas as his hands spread the colors over it. Chromatic, dusty and diluted brushstrokes that break down every concrete and comforting aspect of reality.

"E dicesi anche capriccio talvolta alla stessa fatta, cioè questo, o pittura, o scultura, o altro che sia, è un mio capriccio" this is how Filippo Baldinucci in his Tuscan Vocabulary of Art and Design, seems to describe the spirit of this exhibition where for the first time we can see works definitively freed from any old construct used by the artist up to now; a letting go of thought and form, a first step in her artistic maturity (Maria Chiara Valacchi)

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