The new BAC Quaderno devoted to the most recent works by Paolo Baruffaldi, The Lion and the Angel, includes a large choice of new angels and archangels, and much more.
The artist has included some other subjects that recall the series Le Réveil presented in Quaderno No.7 and some Pulcinellas as found in Carnevale Profano, elaborated in a volume published under the same title during the nineties.
What we have here is the artist’s need to bring together the content of three significant but different series of his research and output (Réveil, Angels and Carnival). A fourth series, that of the sign-signature, which inspired monographic exhibitions such as Terrae in 2003, or before that La Luna, Reperti and In illo tempore, will soon be the subject of a volume containing texts and images that merge into single, essential works.
The techniques used are those for which the artist has always had a particular fondness: etching, aquatint and now also dry-point and “vernis mous” (soft wax).
The novelty consists, however, in some images where an the ancient technique of egg tempera set into a gold leaf background is used creating new contemporary “icons”.
Biographic notes of Paolo Baruffaldi can be read on the following sites:
