Roberto Ciabani - Hilly Landscape

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been a major aspiration for artists of every era. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance; then with atmospheric rendering in the sixteenth century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism.

In developing this work, for artist Roberto Ciabani, depicting landscape means achieving, through the medium of painting, a delicate fusion between naturalistic rendering and poetry. Indeed, this view, in which he employs a purely figurative language, remains rooted in sensory data. Yet reality seems transfigured into a lyrical interpretation that almost transports it into a dreamlike dimension. Formally, all this translates into a highly delicate pictorial style where reality is represented in a rarefied manner. This means that the capture of realistic details and particulars is lost in favor of a more expressionistic and symbolic language. Ciabani's refined pictorial touch, which synthesizes objects with great delicacy, plays a key role in this process. Thus, the color palette is also distinguished by a subtle anti-naturalistic tendency, with colors becoming more vivid and brilliant, with pastel tones predominating.

Roberto Ciabani was born on June 10, 1939, in Florence, where he lives and works. After completing his studies at the Florence Art School, he subsequently earned degrees from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Ashland College in Oregon, the Cappiello School in Florence, the Royal Academy of Amsterdam (Holland) (receiving a scholarship for young artists), and the Sommerakademie in Salzburg, Austria. He has taught art history, drawing, and painting at the L. Cappiello School in Florence, the Lucca Art School, the ENALC Professional Institute, and St. Mary's High School in Medford, Oregon. From 1975 to 1991, he taught painting at the Florence Art School (Firenze 2), and until 1996, he taught sculpture and Florentine history at the Art Institute of Florence. He lived in the United States from 1963 to 1965, and in the following years he spent time in the Netherlands and Austria. As a painter, he has had numerous solo and group exhibitions and participated in competitions in Europe, the United States, and Australia. His works are held in various public and private collections in both Europe and the United States, the most important of which are the Fry Museum in Seattle, the National Bank of Medford, and the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence.

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