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Ruggero VanniStruggle of Color and Matter - Abstract Expressionist Painting, Purple, Yellow2024
2024
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Ruggero Vanni's "Struggle of Color and Matter" is a 48.5 x 61.5-inch abstract expressionist landscape with the primary colors being purple, yellow, and green. The brush strokes are very thick and gestural, with swirls of yellow, purple, and blue colors flying around the canvas, creating sweeping motions as if the brush strokes were moved by gusts of wind. The juxtaposition of purple, yellow, and green colors is very much reminiscent of French post impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard.
Growing up in Rome and now based in New York, Vanni's work beautifully captures the transition from classicism to contemporary art, emphasizing the importance of color and light in his visual practice, with each stroke and hue intricately weaving a visual narrative that captivates the viewer. Whereas Vanni's older paintings are more rigid in their spatial construction and clearly marked by references to classical masters like 18th-century painter Gian Battista Tiepolo, Vanni has evolved through the years towards freedom of gestural expression. This painting is part of his most recent works, where he achieved a balance between these different aspects of his practice, creating canvases where "classical" compositions are born from instinctive thick brush strokes that are first cut out and then carefully reassembled one by one on the surface of the canvas.
Whereas the expressionist nature of Vanni's brush strokes anchors him in a contemporary context referencing American Abstract Expressionism, the classicist roots of his pictorial practice remain evident in his concept that painting is an extension of architecture, intended not only to enhance the aesthetic appeal of the surroundings but also to create a unique and immersive experience for all who interact with the space.
Vanni's work is figurative in that it depicts a three-dimensional space, but it is also non-representational, avoiding any form that could be clearly recognizable. His paintings allude, in Vanni's words, "to natural phenomena, in a raw state, devoid of the limiting constrictions of literal representation. Nature is there as a landscape, a view looking up in the air or plunging down underwater. Imagery is kept on the edge of recognition, so the final association is created in the mind".
Ruggero Vanni was born in 1958 Paris, France, and lives and works in New York.
Private collections include the Pinacoteca of Aosta, Italy; Irving Cancer Center, Columbia University, NY; Yale Eye Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
- Creator:Ruggero Vanni (Italian)
- Creation Year:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 48.5 in (123.19 cm)Width: 61.5 in (156.21 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
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Ruggero Vanni
Ruggero Vanni was born in Paris. He studied painting from 1973–78 at the Istituto d’Arte in Rome, Italy, under the guidance of Italian artist Michelangelo Conte, with an emphasis on fresco and artwork conceived as a part of the architectural context. In 1979, he moved to New York to study art at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York, earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1982. While at Cooper Union, the courses of Erwin Rubin, a former student of Josef Albers, was essential in defining Vanni’s interest in colors as the founding elements of his work. Vanni lives and works in New York City, where he has his studio. He also spends the year working in Italy and Greece. His work has been exhibited in Italy and the United States.
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