Roberto Ercolini - Stone Head

Surrealist aesthetics emerged around the 1920s and encompassed all fields of artistic research. Specifically, in the visual arts, Surrealism sought to explore the human subconscious and translate it into artwork through a mechanical writing process based on dream analysis. Consequently, Surrealist artworks propose the representation of a dreamlike dimension, completely dissociated from reality. However, this representation often relies on a hyperrealistic formal rendering, paradoxically accentuating the illusory and ambiguous nature of the surreal. The Surrealism developed by Roberto Ercolini, however, seems to take a different direction. His works are based on automatic writing and the definition of worlds and figures from another dimension, but everything is rendered in an abstract form.

Roberto Ercolini's compositions are always highly complex, and one can certainly call them Surrealist in that the artist places no limits on his world. However, Ercolini's aesthetic is distinguished by the highly rational character his dreamlike world assumes. This rationality is fueled by the presence of various architectural elements accumulated in a mechanically constructed space, indebted to Cubist decompositional analysis. The arrangement of all the elements reflects this remarkable geometric spirit, which, combined with the implausibility of the subjects, produces an even more alienating effect.

Roberto Ercolini (Livorno 1938 - Milan 1988) was a multifaceted artist, painter, draftsman, and printmaker, devoted to a whirlwind of experimental work that characterized his career. After an initial abstract-informal phase that began in the mid-1960s, Ercolini's work in the 1970s saw the emergence of geometric subject matter, a favorite and recurring theme until his later years. From the 1980s, however, this subject matter was accompanied by an almost obsessive focus on the humanity that the artist had always explored.

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