Comment
on Art:
'Alberto Perotti (1968, Italy) is a researcher of 'silently
places', and the silence we know, is embedded by rumours and
creative temptations. I strongly believe, and I always dare
to assert that the voice that speaks silently nothing is but
God's ones. Who loves the surrounding areas of the flat Padana,
the country field lapped by the rivers Po, Adda ad Lambro, will
find in Perotti's artworks that same feeling of clear innocence
still visible in this essential and poetic landscape moulded
by the natural erosion and man's works throughout the centuries.
Perotti portrays with soft persuasive colours rural views, in
which farms, fields narrow streets and rivers tell the story
of our fathers but in a contemporary style. Trees, towns and
bell-towers shade into the horizon in a light blue dimmed by
the thin fog. The human figure is almost absent in his artworks,
otherwise is depicted as the symbolic shade of oneself. The
interiors are also characterised with gentle tones. The discrete
almost monastic silence reigns in those environments, pervading
the artistÕs subconscious with humility and heightening his
work with spiritual meanings. The artist's astonishment in regards
to the 'created' and 'built' proposes the spontaneous realism
of a sentiment free from the constrictions of academic rules.
PerottiÕs paintings communicate his distress for the integrity
of the landscape, without freezing it though but in a dynamic
and spiritual relation human nature. Perotti throughout mild
reflections succeeds in evoking a deep sense of tranquillity,
an aspiration to pure thing, a fine rural lyricism, a longing
for ancestral harmony, as if the gentle twist of his colours
could softener our dull hearts as like a hope.' (Marco Raja,
Writer)
