The
entire pictorial and sculptural work of Giovan Battista Pedrazzini, a
Lombard artist (he was born at a Secugnago di Lodi in 1933), develops
always round a playful world of fables, a naive world fed of a warm innocence
stirring the poetic imaginary, the merry creativity, the intensive inwards
happiness, as on the other hand a whole class of the Italian painting
of this century. Art an poetry have found a 
disenchanted
confirmation in this world loved by children, along with that theory about
the “little boy “ that was dear even to Pascoli, and today this path,
already twenty years old and having had very large personal expositions
both in Italy and abroad, a considerable sequence of collective expositions
and prizes besides the presence in several museums, clears up the thematic
choose and mainly the style, the very personal style of Giovanbattista
Pedrazzini. First a bestiary becoming the absolute protagonist, a plumed
and quadruped zoo that seems to be cut-off in a simple word, in a background
turning into a monochrome universe of the marvel laying on, with irony
too, as a Spartan painting, a figure synthesis evoking a sort a metaphysical
silence. Well-know critics as Carlo Bolloli and Franco Passoni have already
highlighted this very beautiful imaginary that emotionally lives a paradisiac
world, able to spell dreams, the ancient dreams of man, reviving here
restless. Well then Pedrazzini has succeeded as few in recovering a post-futurist
pictorial style that, notwithstanding the richness of the figure elements,
regains possession of a background painting of net tones, of forms where
any dimension is aligned in an illustrative contemplation. The landscapes
of Pedrazzini are peculiar, they fit the growth of colour going from the
bottom to the top, recovering scenographically that minorale world where
a vegetable dictate is silhouetted, trees and plants, trunks a stylized
flowers. The
reference to seasons is the pretext for these poetical and pictorials
chooses coinciding with that world, loved in the origin land, the lower
Po valley, where the Ticino flows into the Po and marks just the bestiary
and that world of fables told before. We remind with regard to Pedrazzini
the whole work of Tullio Garbari, historical figure of our century, even
him engaged to remind pictorially this fable country world. Pedrazzini
points most at the synthesis collecting forms and colours in an optical
specularity. Our artist is poet too, it will be enough to remember his
book of poems published at Rome in 1989 by the Antitesi Editions, entitled
“ Beyond the horizon “, the same you find in many works, placing between
sky and earth and highlighting a sort of magic and metaphysical frame
of mind, a shining of lights coming on and almost dying down thanks to
the dusk and the strong brightness as if the sun were at the zenith. The
images, birds, horses, sheep becoming heroes as a collection-sample inside
this endless sky, a game of suggestions, low voices, trembling silences;
the same houses being rather unreal sets; the results pointing at in this
last period an ossified geometry, well highlighted also in the polychrome
sculptures, make us deem that the artist has achieved a paradise of forms
of his, a place of molecular curios. To the starting poetry it succeeds
now the ecstasies of light and absolute of forms, even more exalting as
far as they are mirages.
Mensile di scienza medica e attualita`