Duccio Bombardini is a contemporary artist with a zest for life. This
impulse, the vital elan, to quote Bergson, is realised in the search for the
continuous definition of himself, through art. This quest revolves
around colour, with the definition of personality manifested through the
the progressive action of the palette knife. A targeted action, instinctive and rational at the same time,
that builds a brilliant and harmonious chromatic fabric, never shouted, suggesting
thus suggesting vibrant spaces where imagination concretises forms. The drawing,
which the painter always realises following the good rules of the art workshop,
thus proceeding over time from the idea, from the sketch, to its explication
through the sketch to scale, until arriving at the final, to be brought back with the
dusting on the canvas, the drawing, we said, always presents a bird's-eye view,
a ‘bird's eye view’, bringing back memories of places visited, situations experienced,
memories that have emerged. Duccio Bombardini's story is now given to us in this
first solo exhibition at which he arrives, albeit very young, with a pictorial maturity that
pictorial maturity that informs a perfectly recognisable style. Being
colour thus becomes the manifesto of his personal, individual and artistic growth.
The large canvas at the centre of the fairy tale narrated by Duccio, which starts from black and white
black, as in a flashback, speaks to us of a pleasant place, of fun, where
get lost, in search of memories raked over from childhood. Works of
similar format still present us with scenes crowded with characters of small
dimensions, minimal figures moving on an intellectual, metaphysical plane,
formed by cultured references to Flemish painting.
This research, which started from observation and work from life, as in the series
the Alberelli series, now unfolds openly in medium-format canvases, where the
forms are freed by interweaving through the exaltation of colour. We are at the
fusion of the inside-outside relationship, at its overcoming. The overcoming, the
sublimation of being, always takes place on the threshold, on the ridge that separates and
encompasses the dual vision of the world. Thus, Duccio Bombardini tells us
of Expressionism and the Impressionists, declining this dualistic oneness
flying like a contemporary drone through Art History, always
on the threshold of the whole, even of the vexata quaestio of the last century, the dichotomy
Abstract/Figurative that he brilliantly overcomes, solving the existential rebus
with the natural flow of craft, of colour, of discourse.
A discourse of his own that he shares, we believe, with total mutual satisfaction,
both of the artist and the public.
Francesco Maria Bonifazi
Events at Rome Art Week
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