Stefano Zampieri

Studio
Via Madonna Del Riposo, 32
00165 Rome - Italy
Phone: +39-335-398344

Sensuality 100x150
Fresco on Raw Cotton

In a transition period like the one in which we are now, where painting is searching for the crisis point of modernity in the concrete shapes of Post-modern, the modernity denies its origins and camouflages itself in the evanescence of shapeless substance. Only in this manner we believe to find the way to evoke the stuctures and the profiles that have supported the dinamic and plastic pride of avant-gardes, without revealing its belonging. Consequently, the space is no longer the place where the solo structures are scanned, but the lyric vessel where the ghosts of the memory and the painting wander.

The result is in front of our eyes: the interest for the value of the description of objects is increased, rather than the interest for the objects themselves, while the eye wants to keep mastering the representative vision of reality, both physical and social. The work of Stefano Zampieri puts itself in a critic position regarding this crisis. And, while reacting with a lyric vitality and a existentialist restlessness against a rationally controlled representativity, it doesn't neglect the plastic strictness and the architectural design of the shapes in the space. Indeeed, the artist offers to his figures the "Boccioniana" solution of not letting the structure wear out under the light, rather making the structure even stronge - having freed it from conflict - in the space continuity. Thus Stefano Zampieri is brought to highlight in the border marks the drawing rigour, but, in the other hand, to commit to the colour evanescences - impregnated with a suffused lyricism to which a eros component is not extraneous - the work to raise the blockade of the "prampoliniano" cosmic scaffold in a out-of-focus but solid painted idealization, perhaps utopian but not fantastic. And here the chromatic play, that shades in imperceptible nuances, finds his shiver and his restlessness in the timbric sign (perhaps of sensual origin more then spiritual nature), allowing the canvas or paper pattern to be seen through the surface. Really , Zampieri's work, that doesn't need to camouflage the ideological provenance from the avant-gardes, finds its balance in between the formal/structural and the informal/emotional painting, but also in between the rationalist functionalism of Libera and the essential purism of Terragni, in their architectural and design productions.

Luigi Tallarico

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