01 May GIOVANNI GRANZOTTO, THE PARABLE OF COLOUR – 2006

from the opening of the anthological exhibition “Chromatic Emotions”, City of Padua, Monte di Pietà Building, 30 May to 2 July 2006; Venice, San Giovanni Evangelista School and the Region of Veneto, 5 September to 15 October 2006

…Colour is the eternal flame that burns in his paintings. It deposits live cinders to create a wealth of geometric shapes and forms that, although extremely balanced and complete, are always vibrant and vital.

Colour is a primordial material, but it is also an entity that embodies the logic of balance and of the present day. More importantly, colour is a vivid and expansive rationality, a controlled tendency to leave its field of action and engage with other realities.

Since the very beginning, Gard has demonstrated an astonishment and enthusiasm in his efforts that, in my opinion missionaries, explorers and scientists who are determined to discover, reveal and understand a mysterious and wonderful reality that already exists, that already is, and that is compelling and uncorrupted.

This path filled with pure energy, which naturally and spontaneously results in balanced forms, leads to the final phase of Gard’s creative journey.

Pigments have become the surface and material has been definitively transformed into the conceived and perceived material; the parable of colour has been completed and reality has finally been penetrated and understood. There are no longer centres or edges – only the event of the painting”.