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Before discovering that "Action Painting"
was closer to his way of thinking, Gino Baffo began to paint in a "figurative"
manner. These early works were exhibited in two personal exhibitions in 2002-2003.
But the exhibition in 2004 was the precursor of a profound stylistic change. Baffo
remains faithful to Abstract Expressionism, but adds "forms" and "symbols"
and returns to his work with the paintbrush. He applies layers of dense paint
to the canvas achieving a remarkable intensity and extreme tension. It's as if
the color, the forms and the symbols awake to a new life, and assert their independence.
They move, they hide, they flee… and then interact in an extremely reactive
manner; a personal "cosmos" appears on the canvas, works: Guerriere
nascoste, 1,2; Occhi sul fuoco. The canvas itself comes alive, it is slashed
and deformed, it is layered. Baffo experiments with the same canvas both within
and around his opus and finds new solutions to "frame" his works: Camminando,
Croce, Notte, Riesumazione, Equilibrio. At the same time he moves from "Two"
to "Three-dimensionality", works: Briccole. Then again in a later phase
of creation, he returns to the "traditional painting". Paint is
applied even more densely; the layers underline the powerful effect of decomposition.
Layer upon layer, the paint imposes its full material presence. The works look
like veritable "walls", a metaphor for the organism of this city that
one can 'feel' through the presence of its walls like in the "walls"
painted by Gino Baffo.
I perceived this essence when we hung his paintings
on the walls of Venetian homes to photograph them. Gino Baffo finds the
themes of his works within himself and that which surrounds him. As a man whose
family has lived exclusively in Venice for generations, his artistic expression
reflects the impressions of his life and his city. He seeks "the moment"
in this city, which unlike any other, always seems eternal.
Veronika
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