SOME NOTES ON THE DONATED WORKS...
The eight pieces that I donated to the University of Brescia - four in 2022 and four in 2024 - date back to 1992, except for one that is from '93. Together they constitute a significant sample of the artistic experimentation that I activated in the first half of the Nineties.
In that period my research focused on the use of non-artistic materials: that is, industrial products that, transformed by art, took on symbolic and compositional values.
A particular aspect characterized the supports of the paintings in which, as an alternative to the canvas, I chose to use plywood, whose structure allowed me to engrave the material, to give the works a real depth rich in symmetries, rhythms and chromatic variations.
Other materials that have expanded my expressive range have been: ropes, resin knobs, sand, gauze, stainless steel bolts and metal nets that, appropriately arranged and manipulated, have generated an ambiguous and suggestive visual language.
In contrast to the reassuring rational composition of the paintings, I have made the titles act that, distracting from the visible, exemplify the difficulty of fully grasping the reality of the works.
BIOGRAPHY
Luigi Dellatorre was born in Cassolnovo in 1953. He began his artistic career in his early twenties, attending evening drawing and painting classes at the Roncalli Institute in Vigevano. But his true education is due to the self-taught energy and curiosity that led him to study the arts of all times and to frequent the artistic and cultural environments of Milan. In 1991 he left his job as an oil refinery technician to devote himself entirely to art. A creator of neologisms, he works in thematic cycles; since 2008 he has acted through the practice of Accantando which has led him to create works and performances. A constant in his work is ethical commitment. In this sense, his membership in the Movimento Arte Etica, the works entitled Cucire il mondo and the performances in progress Ti dono un’opera are exemplary, with which he gives back to Society - in the form of art - a part of what he has received from it. He lives in Vigevano.
