Brentegani's paintings:
The painter Andrea Brentegani was born in a small village near Verona on June 25, 1971. He is an emulator of Italian art as well as being an innovator. In fact, what emerges from his work is the attempt to change classicist poetics into a stricter formal idealism. His favourite subjects are human figures, running horses and landscapes. The predominant theme of his pictures is the energy, the inner strength and the chromatic fury that come together in his works of art.
“It's not only a matter of eyes” Brentegani says “the action performed by intelligence that wants to see and seize is also the gesture of a whole body, of a physical and psychic being.”
The colours he uses in his paintings are vivid, bright and brilliant. He often makes use of oil pastels with which he can immediately transfer into colour the stroke of the drawing.
He employs computer in a very peculiar and unconventional way combining different materials and techniques (oil, acrylic, natural powders).
Brentegani's paintings consist of rapid and vigorous movements that seize something from the real world and make it own.
This is not contemplation. What he calls visual sensation is the result of that process of seizing and it has got its own structure: what we mean by real space is ourselves inside reality.
The space of Brentegani's pictures, although it is a completely concrete one, is not “natural”, but a psychological space: his extremely deep interest for the present and the past world arises from this.
