Albino Ripani

HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT HIM


G. Massaccesi, M. Rivosecchi, A. Bartolozzi, G. Tuti, S. Coccia, G. Pende, R. Bompadre, C. Leopardi, Mgr. C. Bellucci, Emanuela Catalano, Gennaro Havana, etc..


PUBLICATIONS:


Bolaffi ART n ° 96 March 1980
VAL. ART
The ELITE
Encyclopaedic dictionary of Contemporary Art
International Catalog of art NOVART 1987
International Catalog of art NOVART 1988
Falleroniarte edition 1988
CATALOG OF MODERN ITALIAN N ° 28
LEADER ARTICLE
Illustrated guide for collectors ART 1991
Art selection 95/96 words
Graphic Arts 75 February 2003
2008 - Arte Mondadori in the months of March, May, June, September and November.
2008 - CAM 44



The abstract painting is the last stage of the creativity of this artist who, from figurative to lithography, followed tracks essential to achieving his ideal of transcendence now reached at the meeting of shapes and colors that express and reveal the fusion of reality and Idea .

Every artistic moment, even if different for genre and technique used, has always been reflected in the project by drawing a reality almost beyond, to find answers to Temporary Shadows of existence.

The life and his love for her, however, have gradually led to interpret reality as imperfect expression of eternity.

There is never a lost because his art is an invitation not to be lost, to illuminate the shadows accepting the real possibility of continued rebirth.

If his first landscapes acquire human frames and the figures seem to welcome the smooth movement of the universe, the canvas almost pursuing a rising and widening direction, now the abstract expression reaches the fusion and the meeting of all directions towards a center that is everywhere because ... ... .. there is no place where there is no beginning or the possibility to start a journey ...

Cristiana Leopardi

Microcosmos

At a first approach Ari's works touch by affecting for their pleasantness. Wonderful shades of color, delicate cloudiness , sinuous stripes that blend in delicate or violent harmonies of great effect. But the real pleasure is to examine analytically centimeters per centimeter, the canvas. Then, and only then, will open new horizons, shapes and colors escaped at the first superficial glance. Small unexplored worlds that contain others in a game of Chinese boxes seemingly endless arise from nothing.. Abstract forms that fit in our minds to any interpretation ... A sense of wonder pervades forcing us to give those signs unwanted meanings: it's like fantasizing about bizarre shapes of clouds or the precious inlays of alabastro. It should be exalted Ari's technical and creative skill that allows him to recreate the apparent randomness of natural forms so paradoxically harmonious. Mondelbrot's studies on the theory of fractals in which he tried to regulate what appears totally random are the basis for the search of ARI, who as an artist and not a mathematician seems to drive us nicely to the discovery of arcane constructions of nature in a microcosm beating of life.
Beauty is not searched any more in the visible, in the macroscopic, we gaze upon the minimum of the universe, cells, crystals, fantastic micro-organisms . Beauty invisible to all, imagined, discovered, seized on the magiacal point where it blends into constant becoming of creation.

Andrea Bartolozzi

These masterpieces done by Albino Ripani are closely attached to my soul with their numerous surfaces and I can no longer distance myself.
The soft and sinuous mark, rich of filaments leads us like through a magma on the painted surfaces that demonstrate the sentiments and passions that animate it.
Strong passions that cannot be negated from their own elevated nature, which is rare in humans.
The magma of these paintings, very light in their consistency material dreams.
The attitude to experiment with the curiosity to go beyond, the pride of stealing from his own tools: brushes, spatulas, canvases, colors; the strength in restarting from the surfaces of a painting already finished or to destroying a completed opera.
This is the shattering and strong personality of a man, an artist, deep in his soul, in his thought and in his person.
From the figure, now far away in the time with forty years at work in these months: this personal style of his, not only in the hand but also in a unique mind that is traversed from Art in more senses that intersect them
In his life, Albino Ripani has done everything, especially live, and intensively: and for this man, intelligent and senible, living is something extremely tied to work, and artistic production, and movement. Painting has been the leit-motif of a life dedicated and lived for sentiments, the love the affects the friendships. Painting has often been taken, left behind, picked up, used, lived, repudiated, satisfied, in order to to not take advantage of it or oneself. Loved like a beautiful woman, and escaped like a vice for the distorsions with which we often perceive it in stinking environments, even if they are marshed and reputed or such reputed."
A Neoastrattism that emerges and comes at last swept up from the magma of the imagination and in which dominates the line, the sign, the filament, a redundant and which released undulation that lightly connotes the work supporting and submergeeing the color nearly in the distance.
But what strikes of this Neoastrattism are the very smooth surfaces at "tromphe the oeil" that engage with the observer a contest to the iperrealism, to the "false truest one of the true one", to the not completed from human hand but a technological game of a machine.
And in these canvases from the smooth surfaces where marasmus of matter whirlingly combine, now even light leaks out which the maestro himself introduces and incredibly creates, in the abstract, in the threedimesionality.
With this going and coming from a bidimensional to a threedimensional that the Author tightens and loosens the "coulisse" that ties him to large artistic thoughts that he knows without knowing; that he hears without knowing and that he impastes in himself and in his genes composed of molecules of Art to the pure stamp.
Japan and Gustave Moreau, Klimt and the metaphysics.
It emerges in these messages, but they are ephemeral sensations and totally temporary because that of Albino Ripani is a unique and personal inspiration, continuously researching of something further, from thought to the next gesture.
An incessant becoming that is for him the same reason of life's reason.

Florence 15 April 2008
Emanuela Catalano

Dr. Emanuela Catalano, Art Historian
Art history and cultural heritage lecturer
Florence