 Since
few years the Gabriele Cancedda's active attendance in the art field has
given work to the critics that has always commented on positively his remarkable
work. All that not only for his persevering investigation, furthermore for
his technical abilities to argue the inwards experiences, surely not diverging
from the daily work of the artist operating in the advertising graphics
as Art director. All the oil or watercolour Cancedda's painting places between
a fantastic nature, sometimes crossed by a hypernaturalistic feature, a
motivation toward truth and a recovery of an intensive, strong and sensuous
classicism. Genre and costume painter, of tradition too (specially of his
land, Sardinia), still life and sublime imagination. He has the absolutely
mastery of the formal means showing equilibrium of lines, colours, lights
and forms His
ability is directed to structural needs and narrative interest, with a stylistic
evolution plenty of images of psychological intimate introspection. A singular
grip on reality keeps him rooted inside life, as far as that nowadays his
painting can be well defined the painting of reality. In fact, it is since
he was fifteen that Gabriele Cancedda has familiarity with colours and forms.
And even he's young, he has already 24 personal expositions behind him in
Italy and abroad, having a remarkable fame as a Sardinian painter, full
of talent. The classicism of subjects, adequate to the regional painting
with singular colours and tone, never cold but sometimes plenty of emotiveness,
goes toward a light that is memory of ancient beauties, almost a dig of
symbol beaten by a pouring of colours. Images are sensible to a tale of
his and our times, better dug in that surroundings of places where the artist
lives, actuality and chronicle needing breath and continuous reflection.
These pictorial notes that sometimes offers an approach to sociology and
cultural anthropology (see the Sardinian women dressed with black clothes)
expressing an ancient conscience, soak into a sensitive game that with the
softer tones, just as a master of atelier, evokes the preciousness that
rises his artistic season to an admirable luck. Someone has talked to me
about him as a new leader of the  Variation
Art movement, but more than the denomination of the name it is important
the articulated motivation of his investigation, his passionate, strong
feel of world and its  things.
Art, notwithstanding all its variations, conretizes into an explosion of
energies crossing flashing not only the imagination but tickling its experience
turning into poetry. Cancedda does not need at all to recall images, his
are as discovered from inwards, coming from a good school and a solid academy,
from that world where colours, here moved to resettle the motes material,
weave and intelligent spatiality. |
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