Vincenzo Balsamo - Untitled

The work is an abstract composition. "Abstract" derives from the Latin term "Abstrahere," meaning to extract or draw out. The process of abstraction, in fact, consists of eliminating the particular and individual aspects of an object to derive a universal concept. From Kandinsky to Mondrian, from Pollock to Mirò, many painters have pushed the process of abstraction to the limit in their works, paradoxically creating pure forms and pure colors that do not exist in nature, or translating their emotions and instincts into images. Vincenzo Balsamo was one of the leading exponents of abstract art in Italy, and his research focused precisely on the relationship between perception and pictorial transposition. Indeed, Vincenzo Balsamo's entire career has followed a coherent path from figurative art to an ever-increasing abstraction of reality, passing through Abstract Cubism, all the way to the almost informal results of the present work.

This work is a prime example of Vincenzo Balsamo's approach to conceiving the tangible world and translating his perception onto canvas. The transition from the Abstract Cubist period was crucial in initiating a decomposition of space and time within the work. In Vincenzo Balsamo's canvases, everything happens simultaneously within a complex and non-univocal space. The evolutionary shift we can detect in this work is that those decomposed forms originally had a concreteness of their own, whereas now everything seems to be empty. Cubist mechanical plasticity gives way to an extremely rarefied, two-dimensional surface. The decomposition occurs through an extremely thin, calligraphic line, which transfigures the perception of reality into an elegant puzzle of overlapping and transparencies. Everything then plays out on the level of color, suggesting stimuli and perceptual games. In this work, the tonal coherence of an intense and mysterious purple chromaticism predominates.

Vincenzo Balsamo was born in Brindisi in 1935. He trained in Pietro Acquaviva's studio and began his first figurative work, consisting of landscapes and flowers. In 1949, he moved to Rome, where he opened his own studio ten years later. Balsamo's landscapes became increasingly abstract in a relentless pursuit that led to informal results. He exhibited worldwide and in 2010 was invited to participate in the Fourth China Biennial. He also worked as a set designer, including the 1961 installation for the film "Cleopatra." Vincenzo Balsamo passed away in 2017.

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