Romeo Battisti is an Italian artist who lives and works in Poggio Bustone (Rieti).
A lifelong art enthusiast, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in L'Aquila, under Professor Fabio Mauri in Aesthetics. A researcher and experimenter in life and art, he has always sought the deeper meaning of things beyond their surface. By delving into commonplaces, the apparent separation of man can dissolve, revealing our integration with the world. Without prejudice toward East or West, these themes become vital nourishment and permeate his art. Thus, figure and background are resolved into a single, indivisible whole, the limit is surpassed, and things are not as you expect them to be. Reality, if listened to, reveals itself to be infinitely richer than any definition, which we willingly abandon when we see that by enclosing it in a concept, we are actually left outside of it. This is how we gradually learn to offer ourselves to the real world. And the real world offers itself not as sterile, but rich, unpredictable, shifting, and so convincing that it leads us to let go, with a smile, of the last childish attempts to cling to the false certainties of the ego, opening ourselves to this wonder of which we are a part and which always surprises us.
Upon closer examination, common parameters, though necessary in ordinary life, evaporate. The beginning and the end, the before and the after, in the light of broader horizons lose their meaning. Ordinary life pulls us down, certainly, but that level belongs to us by right; drawing from it is to rediscover ourselves, to exist. With this, other meanings surface: a tree at sunset is never banal and alludes to something else; a flower, in its fragrance, contains the colors of dissolution; the other side is always revealed. Nothing is rejected, everything is life, and the totality is closer.
The work of artist Romeo Battisti focuses on human interiority, and through his art, he seeks to indicate a vision of the world that various traditions have spoken of since ancient times. It is difficult to translate all of this through painting materials and some technical knowledge. In reality, it has always been this way; language has never been adequate to express the inexpressible, and art is a language. Despite this, through art, one can allude to and point to, but certainly not directly transmit what, filled with life and meaning, would become, through a concept, merely a notion.
Artist Romeo Battisti has studied the techniques of the ancient masters and makes use of whatever materials he deems necessary for modern expression. Inks, earths, tempera, oils, glazes, pastes, drips, abrasions are part of his repertoire, as is the preparation of backgrounds, papers, and various materials subjected to the actions of Dripping and Action Painting. Never satisfied, when faced with a good result, he feels the need to break that appearance, that illusion, that skin-like film of color, and reveal, through a succession of Creations and Destructions, the underlying and the beyond. Another level, another depth beyond the superficial pleasure of cheap self-satisfaction. What seemed finished becomes a new painting base, a new beginning, and thus infinitely continues until the process, through layers and excavations, exhausts its path and intuitively comes to a halt.
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