[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ make_equal=”on” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.paolomarianiartdesign.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/guarneridaverio.webp” alt=”Gianluigi Guarneri with Daverio (2017)” title_text=”Gianluigi Guarneri with Daverio (2017)” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”intro” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]Gianluigi Guarneri<\/b>, professor and art critic, wrote the following review on Paolo Mariani’s graphic works:[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”txt guarneri” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ text_font=”roboto cond variable|300|on||||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
There is a time and a place, in the immensity of the soul, where everything flows and soars into the rosy dimension of memory. Instants, fleeting moments of existence become colour and rise in the synthetic tonal stratifications of artist Paolo Mariani. Using mixed techniques, mainly pigmented paper collages, he creates fascinating visual rhythms, sharp and delicate, sublimated in a persuasive balance between transparencies and matter. Traces of experience are transfigured in the landscape, in the place, in the events that those places have had in history, becoming, in the geometric stroke, a phantasmagorical meta tale. <\/p>\n
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There is a time and a place, within the vastness of the soul, where everything flows and soars into the rosy realm of memory. Fleeting moments of existence become color and ascend through the synthetic tonal stratifications of artist Paolo Mariani. Using mixed media\u2014mainly collages of pigmented paper\u2014he creates captivating visual rhythms, both sharp and delicate, sublimated in a seductive balance between transparency and substance. Traces of lived experience transfigure into landscapes, places, and events from history, becoming, through geometric lines, a phantasmagorical meta-narrative.
I met Paolo at his booth at the 2024 ArtePadova Art Fair. I was struck by his intellectual vision, his immense professional dedication, his aerial compositional style of painting, and our shared passion for flight. His works search within color for the vibrant sonorities of distant memories that become a testament to a life devoted to beauty.
In his compositions, the artist captures the vastness of dreams, shaped by the reflections of memories, by gusts of wind swirling fiercely during a first parachute jump. In the immensity of the blue sky, the roar of the engine shakes the brilliant white clouds. Then comes the leap into the void, followed by silence\u2014at times light and controlled, at times free\u2014allowing one to marvel at the wondrous fragments of land and sky in simultaneous sequences of ardor and paradise. The earth draws near, the white canopies of parachutes appear, and one’s shadow is reclaimed upon the lush green airfield of Campoformido<\/b>. The material takes on new life, the colors become rich and iridescent, breaking the fluid threads of wind into a dazzling energy of light that spreads across a thousand grassy terrains, magically generating a dizzying and transfigured perceptual ideality.
For Paolo Mariani, water too becomes an essential fluid, a living, moving entity that flows through the continuity of time. The Adige River, shimmering with emerald-blue reflections, takes on an even deeper hue when navigated by all kinds of vessels or admired from the ancient red-crested ruins of Castelvecchio<\/b> in Verona. Poetic and scholastic memories speak of that enchanted place that once witnessed the story of King Theodoric, riding a fierce steed, pursuing a wild deer\u2014mysteriously appeared\u2014that would lead him on an incredible journey into the crater of a volcano. Between light, form, and space, memories overlap pleasantly, creating chromatic juxtapositions that define a place-memory. <\/p>\n
[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ make_equal=”on” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”txt guarneri baratti san zaccaria” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ text_font=”roboto cond variable|300|on||||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]Venice, San Zaccaria<\/b>\u2014with its Byzantine origins, consecrated to the father of Saint John the Baptist by Emperor Leo V the Armenian\u2014appears in its Renaissance form, as an iconic monument layered with complex and varied material nuances. Red dominates the palette, weaving into the structure of the composition and further enhancing the white surface of the magnificent church. Turquoise, emerald, crystal, sun, and silence carry us far away to another enchanting sea\u2014the Ligurian one\u2014where the Gulf of Baratti<\/b> opens along the coast of the Maremma. Amber sands and crystal-clear water shimmer with iron fragments from ancient Etruscan forges, which Paolo echoes by overlaying delicate geometric structures in elegant plastic compositions. For the artist, the landscape is merely an initial paradigm, a point of inspiration to elaborate figurative extensions of unpredictable scope<\/b>. Sands, sudden breezes, fragrant shrubs, shimmering lights, and telltale signs of archaic civilizations are sublimated into ever-shifting traces with complex and unforeseen interrelations.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.paolomarianiartdesign.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sanZBaratt-850px.webp” alt=”Baratti and San Zaccaria by Paolo Mariani” title_text=”Baratti and San Zaccaria by Paolo Mariani” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”guarneri ” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ text_font=”roboto cond variable|300|on||||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]The winter sea, a personal and collective memory with a musical echo\u2014\u201ca concept the mind no longer contemplates\u201d\u2014becomes for the artist a unique, iridescent place, dotted with black wooden structures marking the beaches lit by the orange-yellow sunset. The artist captures within each fragment of time and place a stroke, a trace, a fleeting instant, creating a relationship between each composition and its corresponding inner synopsis. A mysterious harmony emerges in his work between lyricism and form, content and synthesis, in pursuit of a continuous simplification of the line\u2014until the pictorial component nearly vanishes<\/b>. In Paolo Mariani\u2019s art, an abstract rhythm of graphic modules is elevated through precise spatial alternations, flowing into a sequence of symbols akin to a personal and enigmatic language in which the artist finds freedom, happiness, and a sense of purpose.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ make_equal=”on” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”txt guarneri conclusione” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ text_font=”roboto cond variable|300|on||||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]Flight, as an ultralight pilot, intensifies his longing for space, cosmos, and freedom. Paolo Mariani is a seaplane pilot, flying through the skies of the world in search of emotion and lyrical fragments of timeless poetry: \u201c[…] I perform the routine checks before idling the engine and spiraling into a gentle, continuous turn down to just a meter above the water […].\u201d The emerald-green waters of Lake Garda are rich with joy, glimmers, and pleasant hues. Paolo finds in both Flight and Art the heartbeat of his soul, translating events into a graceful sequence of visual experiences. Spatiality becomes a driving force, a place where the sensitive being brings forth the creation of a perceived world\u2014subsequently transformed into the enchanting story of life as commitment and passion<\/b>.
For Paolo, the image of time becomes a complex revelation, where every moment, every color, is charged with infinite intellectual tenderness, suspended between the outer and the inner worlds\u2014giving each journey, regardless of its temporal or geographical span, a newfound meaning. Paolo Mariani\u2019s works explore invisible and visionary territories, navigating beyond the imitative dimension of reality, suspended in an infinite becoming\u2014witnesses of moments, precious gems of irrevocable breaths, light and sensitive, dwelling in the depths of the soul.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.paolomarianiartdesign.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/Primo-lancio-su-cavalletto.webp” alt=”First jump at Campoformido” title_text=”First jump on easel” src_tablet=”https:\/\/www.paolomarianiartdesign.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/Primo-lancio-su-cavalletto.webp” src_phone=”https:\/\/www.paolomarianiartdesign.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/Primo-lancio-su-cavalletto.webp” src_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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