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Article of Nicolina Bianchi
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Review : Scegli Roma (SR) , June 1990 |
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The chromatic spaciality of Costantino CONTINI
“An extremely interesting exhibition, that one of Costantino CONTINI, so much that the gallery" FORUM INTERART ", has extended it for a further one week. The journalist of GR2 RAI, Augusto GIORDANO, after having made a positive radiophonic comment, went twice to the gallery. Even the professor of the Academy of Rome, Sandro TROTTI, had eulogistic words for this artist who saw and works in France. Moreover, more than one once, with flattering speeches, the Director of Printing works AGES, Antonio DE MARCO, and his wife, the writer and journalist, Mara FERLONI, were interested in him. |
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... It is not the construction of illusory spaces, but the evocation of the direction of the space, which creates the particular chromatic images of Costantino CONTINI. A space, like "structures" of the color; brilliant and odd color, measured in singular forms. Pictorial geometrical forms which indicate an interesting disagreement of abstract modulations. The art of Costantino CONTINI shows the possibility for new designs, not only in the articulation of the color, but
also of the form. Its blows of brush, by no means forced, replace, in artistic current logic, the conventional one and the traditional one. |
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Marco Aurelio dream |
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A hole in the Wonderful |
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Creations of the matter, added to the color, produce, with the effect of the light, the reflections and the shades, in perpetual motion, almost an eternal to become. Oil and the acrylic resin, associate tonal notes of depth and suggestive luminosity. A richness of inspirations which results in a significant creative conscience. A personality, his, which is accompanied by continual analyses and a good experiment of painter who likes to reproduce the movement of time and the men. Living and working in LYON, Mr. CONTINI, this French air breathed which, very often, suggested with the artists of the whole world, strong and exciting emotions”. |
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Article di Catia Chicchi |
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THE
LAST PAITINGS OF
COSTANTINO CONTINI:
THE FORM
IN THE COLOUR |
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In the paintings of Contini, the color speaks, weaves a weft of spots and signs that seem to talk between them, to recall themselves, to run after themselves to the infinite. The colour creates the shapes that are not static, but they move with a rhythm nearly musical given by the movements of the artist. In perfect harmony and equilibrium, they are distributed on the canvas, in little fast and instinctive gestures, but that they enclose, at the beginning, a thought, an idea, than the artist it knows how to materialize. It’s amazing how a mix apparently casual of colours, can provoke in the observer feelings, emotions, memories. And it is just what Contini decides to show to us in its works, not the visual description of a landscape, a figure, a face, but an inner motion, an intuition, all that that often are not looked at with the eyes, but is. It doses wisely, like an alchemist, the tones, the shadings, the mixtures, and he does it, with the spontaneity and the freshness of the improvisation. |
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Contini has explored techniques and styles, and to every kind it has known to impose its personality, its particularity, but it is in the paintings more informal and with his special gestures that it succeeds to be involved and to emotion the observer, in them we can read its gesture, the not easy colouristic sensibility, the force and the sweetness together. To the contrary of the realistic representation, which does not leave us, sometimes, dared to the free interpretation, its works enter in contact with our depth, without to pass from the reason, succeed in straight to touch the ropes of the unconscious one. In the moment of the creation the gesture of the artist is made fast or slow, the brush movements are gotten thicker more driven in or form large spots, but not there is never stasis, perceives a continuous movement, a become, the fluidity of the time that slides, the creative motion that is transposed from the inside to the outside. In the works of Contini, I read the past, the present and the future, what we are and that we would want to be, colours like notes or words or gestures, in order to narrate an emotion. |
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Catia
Chicchi,Capezzano Pianore 2005 |
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