Abstract Art by Vincenzo Balsamo

Contemporary Italian Artist, fine art works gallery from figurative (landscapes, still life, portraits) period, cubism, surrealism, to lyrical abstraction, oil on canvas, watercolours, limited editions, print by etchings, interviews, and links.

Vincenzo Balsamo was born in Brindisi, in 1935, he lived in Rome, Paris and now he lives in Verona. He exhibited, several times in national and international fairs, galleries and museums, since Figurative works of the fifties and sixties, over the seventies with the periods of the First Abstraction, the Decomposition informal period, of matter work; to the Nebulas where the sign prevails on colour; to the Evocations of surreal calls; to the Second Abstraction (Return to the painting), of the first eighties that closes the Analysis and experimentation period.

Since 1987 began the Lyric abstraction, the sign, the colour, and the light are made up among them as if they would peer into the human I.

Sign, light and colour are the elements that Vincenzo Balsamo uses to play his expressive game. It is an operation that the artist performs under the sign of grace and lightness, letting the images come out as if from a dream, “the place where the lines of geometry and imagination live together”. The sign outlines the forms, the colour connotes the emotional field, the light dematerialises the vision which only apparently appears unobjective.

In his paintings it seems as if the line seeks to capture essential moments in history of art through the forms given to signs that recall Kandinsky, Mirò, Klee, or even the Russian forerunners of the early twentieth century. But this does not mean imitation. It is simly a sort of mnemo-bait meant to capture the observer`s noetic - that is intellective - eye, inducing him to pose questions; in other words to start mobilizing his thoughts and curiosity, to activate his mind. This happens because, above all, Balsamo`s pictorial act is an act of the essential moments of history of art.

Vincenzo Balsamo is today one of the most important Italian artists of the abstraction.

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