The signs that Bartolini utilizes respond to different cultures and eras, released however from geographical and temporal connotations. The artist cites but never reveals the contents of his works; everything is wrapped in an aura of mystery that makes his works magical, intriguing and contemporary. The creative gesture is in the same action of bringing back to life simple and forgotten signs and reconstructing them in a game of references and repetitions that leave open the door of imagination, of the spiritual pathway and of the emotional sphere.
“Along the trajectory of the parabola of Bartolini, appears a sort of rhythmic imprinting, a tendency for reiteration, division, modulation and measure.(...) All of the symbols and meanings that Bartolini alludes to during his research can be traced back to the same instance: the rhythm (...) Luciano Bartolini tried in every way to rebuild a relationship with the fundamental structures of human beings, with those symbols and those thousand year-old archetypes, which he blends with languages, through quintessentially anti-traditional, contemporary art.”. (The Rhythm of Breathing, by Ivan Quaroni)
Luciano Bartolini : From Kleenex to ...
Past exhibition
