Biography
Biographical notes
Since I was a boy I attend the studio of the painter Giacomo Malfanti. In the eighties and nineties short stays in Paris, in Montmartre to revisit the art of Pablo Picasso and Amedeo Modigliani. I've always painted a lot, landscape, still life and portraits.
Gabriele Donelli
The faces of " immortal " by Gabriele Donelli
It harks back to the past and to the memory with a lyricism artist Gabriele Donelli Piacenza.
Animated by the same passion for the classics of contemporary literature and philosophy, as a moder Guttuso encounters in his artistic avant-garde writers of the caliber of Martin Heidegger, Jean Paul Satre, Arthur Rimbaud, Samuel Beckett who know how inspire new ideas and suggestions.
Attracted by writers and writers such as Italo Calvino, Alberto Moravia, Isabel Allende, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Eugenio Montale, Dino Campana, to name a few, all - as he implies - " very original and quirky individuals who the had the considerable inner qualities related to me " ; Donelli approaches also to the great portraitists of the twentieth century, are welcomed with his personal expression signs.
And here come the portraits of Georges Braque, Giorgio Morandi, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Alberto Giacometti, Renato Guttuso.
Portrait elegant as unusual with a marked and the desired two - dimensional shapes and spaces, typical of a dimension of imprinting Fauvist.
The peculiarity lies in the faces, sometimes incomplete and skinny, sometimes rich in details and the details that make an impression of timeless portrait.
Gabriele Donelli immerses you fully in the work of invention and elaboration of somatic physiognomy and character of the artist who reads, hears, lives.
His is a more detailed work, study that led him to develop, meticulously every idea, every twist, every draft that the whale in the mind or that seems congenial to the idea that it was done by a specific author.
It is these portraits, sometimes incomplete, which seems to lie the soul of the painter Piacenza.
Intuition and instinct fluidity in the pen and pencil, are part of its genuine representation of the real protagonists of emotionalism painting unique.
The use of the pastels is indicative of a status operands uncommon, as if to some extent back in the world of childhood and of his carelessness.
His drawings, crayon, pencil and acrylic, send at times - as he says - " sometihing that recalls the making suggestive of lightness as a condition sweet and strange ".
In the eighties he painted mainly landscapes, even if it grows inside him clearly outlined and love for writing, which took him little time to compose several short stories and poems.
At the beginning of the millennium comes to a greater reflection of himself and his work, where even the way of making art suffers.
" Rediscover the " Compositions " by finding a new way to represent certain moods, intimate and personal attitudes regarding often bound by gestures.
These particular reasons are nothing more than a metaphysical character of the evolution, where the poetic intention that emerges here and there are plays of situations as opportunities hermetic now distant in time and memory ".
Self - taught passionate and methodical, Donelli began to draw as a child, always remaining true to himself and his simple but effective style, visible and recognizable thanks to its strong two - dimensionality of the faces and the poses portrayed that never expire mere caricature of the character in the painting, but they become in a moment, silent existential reflections.
In smail areas there are the peculiarities exhibited traits of the characters, as if the artist comes into contact with the authors he read and loved it and transalate his inner vision onto the canvas.
You can almost converse with those faces, those eyes, those facial features as well as special features, so as to understand immediately that we are looking beyond the frame.
But Donelli so, contradiction and particularity, it may or may not like, but never brings with it the indecision, the ambiguity of a feeling.
His portraits reveal sometimes rudeness, edginess, and even the " asymmetric geometry happy " typical of sensitive souls ( as written by Brandi at the Jeux de Cartes Stravinskij Guttuso ).
Everything is color, emotion tied to the signs, the musical interpretation of a face and its expression latent.
2012 Federica Giobbe
