Paolo BARETTA
New artist
Paolo Baretta was born in Milan on February 8th, 1961. His attraction to all forms of artistic expression initially brought him to become active in the music field, which he left at age 30, dedicating himself exclusively to painting. Starting 1992, he worked at the studio of Master Egidio Fusi, during which time he participated in a few painting awards.
The Nineties saw the dawn of a collaboration with William Congdon, the last great member of the New York-based “Action Painting” group, creating a friendship and work relationship that lasted until Congdon’s death in 1998.
Since then, Paolo’s path has brought him to recognize dignity in the simplest things, in picture composition, and ultimately in the evolution of man and artist, and his eternal search for truth.
SYNTHESIS OF CRITICS’ REVIEWS
The journey of Paolo Baretta has been ongoing, in a quest for new shapes and metamorphoses telling the story of man and his needs, as seen through the “artist’s eye”: the intimate relationship between a painter and the object portrayed in his work.
Experiments in expression, that are also the basis for an in-depth study of the dialectic of vision, or the transversal singularity of each love relationship.
The author’s suggestions slowly reveal their building structure and profound inspirational themes.
(Samuele Benelle)
Through different painting techniques, Paolo Baretta continues his research with obstinacy and consciousness in the fragmented world of contemporary art. He expresses himself in countless ways and strikes everyone’s deepest cords, because there is a “piece of art” for everyone. His path is free from rhetoric and provocation and is the expression of a spiritual and emotional tension which is tied, glued, nailed and constricted by a strong sense of contemporary reality.
(Monica Masiero)
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