21 Jul CLAUDIO CERRITELLI, 2003

From the presentation using the solo exhibition “By way of colors and metals” Malcesine (VR), Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Chiesa di San Nicolò e Rocco, August-September 2003.

…Gard, Confronted with the sophisticated technological prospects of the multimedia era, the artist doesn’t forfeit the value of expressive emotion despite his awareness of being part of a cosmos that programs even indifference. He prefers to paint while meditating harmonies of color, between tremors and pulsations that at time become fragments of unexplored universes at others pure special concepts.

The mental dimension operative in everyone of Gard’s chromatic choices is a way of controlling the materiality of the pigments stratified into an indescribable number of fragments, minimal traces, disintegrated pulses. It’s a question of barely visible signs, points of light whose vibrations create the sensation of a continuous genesis of the image, a perpetual motion of the elements that constitute its temporary structure, unstable and difficult to exhaust in a glance.

Having arrived at the most advanced phase of his chromatic incandescence, the painter finds himself in the condition to reflect upon the ever increasing expansion pictorial matter and on the duration of its effects, which in the mind’s eye can ever be infinite. Perhaps for this reason, in order to give a different orientation to the flux of his galaxies, Gard fixes new fragments into the chaos of desire; perhaps this is why today he puts other special dynamics alongside the purity of color. Perhaps the artist, removed from the allure of the known image, is shaking painting free from the risk of optical mesmerism to provide it with new imaginative energy and to affirm his love for this eternal language, one of the few capable of examining objectively and seductively the mysterious rapport with color.