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He is the graphic: draws with the gouge and paints with linoleum. Essential and severe in his lines, occasionally becomes lyric and entertains with colorful effects.
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Quick links - Galleries: Oil painting - water color - pastel - engraving & print - sculpture. |
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In the engravings of this ligurian artist, who started working with graphic media in 1977, we notice a structural construction based on essence. He makes mainly linoleum engraving which produces on the print, enjoyable effects. (Fosco Monti)
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Arturo Molinari is a conscious draftsman in a constant balance of formal and artistic expression. Here he proposes sketches of reality, like common objects of daily life in the fore ground, gaining conceptual strength through the simplicity of lines. (Giorgio Falossi)
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Poor gouge.I must confess, I am self-taught in art. I cannot charge any teacher with the responsibility to have educated me in using the less sophisticated instrument: a poor gouge. I know well that a chisel is not that nobler, but with it you can shape volumes, I know that a hardwood graver is equally humble, but with it you can reproduce shadows. Not with the gouge. But when it carves the hard skin, when it bites the pulp, it reveals the many forms hidden in the material. It rides the sinuous curves and the straight lines with surgical precision, no mistake admitted. In the details it's delicate, light in surfing, like a boat on the waves, but when the sketch is done, it becomes impetuous, rushing to take out the excess and freeing the drawing to express all its vitality. The hand just sustains, follows, and the gouge goes: where it touches, where it grazes, leaves its mark.. At last, the linoleum looks ploughed land, the furrows spread and melt themselves, it's hard to distinguish the subject in that beautiful intersection of lines and arabesques. When the work is done, the gouge rests and the plate is ready to leave its print, by mean of a thin layer of ink, over the immaculated paper. (Aemme)
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