luigi bartolini
Mediums Used
Luigi Bartolini travaille le bois depuis plusieurs années. Apres le tournage sur bois de ses débuts il s`est adonne à la sculpture.
Sa passion du bois lui vient de son père qui réalisait des objets pour la maison.
Il suppose avoir hérité de lui son savoir faire. Il vit à Ovada, une petite ville située entre la Ligure et le Piemont dans le nord ouest de l`Italie.
Sur sa route d`autodidacte, il montre des objets et tente de faire passer des messages pertinents suivant
Il pense que parmi les matériaux que l`homme travaille, le bois est celui a le plus “le sang chaud”.
Le bois est un matériau organique avec des caractéristiques que l`on retrouve chez l`homme.
Comme l`homme on peut distinguer des bois durs et des bois mous, des bois sombres et des bois clairs, des bois flexibles et des bois cassantsComme l`homme il peut tomber malade; il est travaillè vert; au soleil il devient tanné;
exposé aux intempéries il devient gris
C`est pour ces raison que le bois, d`une simple branche à une sculpture compliquée, il a en lui quelque chose de familier pour nous.
Sculptures by luigi bartolini
Credentials
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Luigi Bartolini was born in Belgium in 1953 to Italian parents.
Back in Italy young I completed schooling at address technical school in Genoa.
Also in Genoa I played for about 30 years as technical designer of industrial plants.
At the age of 50 years I have had the opportunity to retire and the availability of free time allowed me to devote full time to my artistic passion for communicating through the wood.
I am aware that my artistic career is very young, but at the same time, having been locked up inside me for many years, I find that now that you can `make a great effect almost compensates for the past years.
In terms of training I am self-taught both the technical than artistic, this is my choice.
I preferred to follow this path because I was afraid that training could be conditioned or masters of artistic
What is the issue that most interests me tap into my works?
It `just the man and his world.
The man in his social relations of conflict with other men,
the man in front of the mystery of the knowledge of his life, the man with his love / hate conformism man and his relationship with religion, In conclusion, the man in search of knowledge of itself (we do all of us from birth to death).
In my works I try to highlight these situations, relationships, attitudes, pointing at times with a direct criticism, sometimes using irony and sarcasm that I have more congenial.