gpaolo.art

Tag: Venice

  • Wide Angle on an Ancient Art

    Walking through Murano, you feel as though you are crossing a strip of land gently reclaimed from the sea – a slender thread holding together houses, bridges, and silences. The canal flows slowly like a thought, green and deep, carrying within it the reflection of everything: the full blue of the sky, the pastel façades, the dark windows that guard their stories. Every color seems to rise from the water and return to it, as if the light had been poured by hand, with the same care with which master glassmakers shape fire in their workshops.

    Murano is a living mirror: what seems fragile here is also what speaks most powerfully. Glass – transparent, delicate, daring – becomes the emblem of a creativity that has traveled the world and given this country an international voice. Yet beauty, if not protected, can fade: and the community is called to safeguard this light, so that it will not be lost to time.

    TITLE:   

    Wide Angle on an Ancient Art

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    80 x 60 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    Aug 2025

    SERIAL N.:

    20250802

    NOTES:

    Subject taken from a photograph, executed solely with a palette knife

  • Small is Better – Venezia 2024

    Small is better! = Piccolo è meglio!

    An exhibition of small format to present the liveliness, expression and beauty of art up close, even through small dimensions, dimensions that accentuate a functional opportunity for exchange, fast and dynamic, between contemporary art and its audience.

    Not a reduction that is imposed on us in the works exhibited, but rather a fullness that is revealed to us.
    An accompaniment with the minimum, the fragment, the crumb.
    And don’t think that’s little!

    Exhibition curator Gina Affinito, gallery owner Paolo Bertuzzo and Valentina Recchia, art therapy teacher at ARTEDO Venezia, School of Arts Therapies, for an emotional reading of the works entitled: “SMALL MEETINGS WITH ART THERAPY”

    Event information

    Period: From 14 to 21 December 2024, with inauguration on Saturday 14 December at 6:00 pm


    Where: Arte Spazio Tempo, Campo del Ghetto Nuovo, Cannaregio 2877, Venezia

    Below you can consult the catalog.

    Web Catalog Small is betterDownload

  • Like a feline shiver

    I slipped and the bucket was there, ready, innocent and calm.

    Now all my fur is soaked in water. It’s as if the freezing humidity penetrated under my skin, a sensation I can’t ignore. The cold shakes my soul, forces me to arch my back and tense every muscle in my body.

    And then, the shiver.

    An irresistible impulse runs through me, I shake all my fur, from muzzle to tail, an uncontrolled dance to free myself of this unbearable sensation.

    But the water doesn’t disappear so easily. Little drops fly all around.

    This painting participated in the SMALL is BETTER! Exhibition – from 14 to 21 DECEMBER 2024 at Arte Spazio Tempo, Campo del Ghetto Nuovo, Cannaregio 2877, Venice.

    Curator of the exhibition Gina Affinito, the gallery owner Paolo Bertuzzo and Valentina Recchia, teacher in art therapy at ARTEDO Venice, School of Arts Therapies, for an emotional reading of the works entitled: “SMALL MEETINGS WITH ART THERAPY”

    TITLE:   

    Like a feline shiver

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    20 x 20 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    November 2024

    SERIAL N.:

    20241102

    NOTES:

    Fantasy subject – made with spatula and brush

    Below you can consult the catalog.

    Web Catalogo Small is betterDownload

  • The Luzzu and the Colossus

    On the slow waves, a luzzu rests,
    with the blue that caresses the sky,
    the yellow that captures the sun,
    and the red that whispers ancient stories.

    Moored at the quiet dock,
    it carries with it the breath of the sea.

    On the border between dream and distance,
    a giant slips away,
    the container ship full of worlds,
    of stacked colors,
    shaded like memories that are lost.

    And while the small and the large touch each other,
    the sea unites them,
    silent guardian of every journey,
    of every farewell, of every return.

    I took this photo in August 2023 in Marsaxlokk on the island of Malta

    This painting participated in the SMALL is BETTER! Exhibition – from 14 to 21 DECEMBER 2024 at Arte Spazio Tempo, Campo del Ghetto Nuovo, Cannaregio 2877, Venice.

    Exhibition curator Gina Affinito, gallery owner Paolo Bertuzzo and Valentina Recchia, art therapy teacher at ARTEDO Venice, School of Arts Therapies, for an emotional reading of the works entitled: “SMALL MEETINGS WITH ART THERAPY”

    TITLE:   

    The Luzzu and the Colossus

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    20 x 20 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    November 2024

    SERIAL N.:

    20241101

    NOTES:

    Made entirely with a spatula

FrenchSpainEnglishItaly