Biography
Jeanfilip seems to be one of those rare artists who, sailing through different
artistic periods of his vital “iter”, always succeded in setting up concrete pictorial
seasons that made him grow up, pictorically speaking.
It is quite curious but Jeanfilip began with figurative art, always wellR08;pronounced
and selfR08;controlled, but still announcing this great artist’s future to be directed
towards more aulic frameworks and so fully revealing all his most intimate
emotions and forming so a kind of authentic cromatic alchemy, which flitting and
laughing, is directed to us with politeness, very nearly dancing.
During the artist’s period de&ined as “Lavagne”(Blackboards) period, one can
clearly recognize scars of colours which are not chosen by the author, but
imposed by a moment, creating, therefore, real pictorial masterpieces that are
really rich of outdstanding grace and gratitude.
In these works we can &ind not only traces already expressed by the great Burri,
but some plugs of his own conceptual art as well.
Jeanfilip doesen’t stop for a long time over what he has tenaciously achieved, but
engages himself once again waving the brushes and creates new works that
seem however to bring you back to the down oh his painting or rather to
abstract and wellR08;modulated scenes with the presence of figures.
Nevertheless I would like to pay more attention towards the works
“Acqua”(Water) and “La via dell’ocra”(The ochre way) where the figurative
aspect, even if present, seems to be diaphanous and whirling, and where we can
find widely again the inborn genesis of the artist that is able to indulge us in
astonishment and incredulity for such a great pictorial skill.
But if one still wants to dwell upon the art of this great interpreter of
contemporary art, it is right to watch attentively the masterpiece “Riflessi
Blu”(Blue reflections), an authentic painting that gives us new transc
new pictorial reflections, new attainments for this excellent artist.
Valeria S.Lombardi
Doctor of history of contemporary art
