ROBERTO PAGNANI
from 4 to 7 February 2024
The Exhibition
In the artist's work, technically, more than one pictorial sophistication is hidden, since Roberto Pagnani is a cultured painter, cultivated by ancient sediments made his own to the point of forgetting them: the most famous, the informal abstraction of the post-war period.
Water does not reveal itself in Pagnani's marine environments. We are often on this side of a dune that hides the vision, the escape, the overwhelming vastness as useless for the intimate discourse that the author is having with himself and with us: we know, we have the certain sensation that it is there, it must be there a step away. But we cannot see it. His are visions that start from lumps of reality to kidnap us in them and make us stop. Suspended between the certainty of having already seen some things and the doubt of not knowing them at all.
The Artist
Roberto Pagnani was born in Bologna and lives in Ravenna, the city where he works as an artist. Raised in a family context dedicated to the world of art for several generations, he has been in direct contact with the works of the major protagonists of the European informal cultural environment. He exhibits in numerous events and shows both in Italy and abroad.
Many critics and art historians have written about him, including Franco Bertoni, Beatrice Buscaroli, Luca Maggio, Michela Ongaretti, Aldo Savini, Serena Simoni and Claudio Spadoni.
His collaborations with the world of theater and music are also important, such as, for example, the creation of scenography or pictorial installations for concerts.
He has also illustrated texts and poetic publications by Cetty Muscolino, Valerio Fabbri, Nevio Spadoni, Stefano Simoncelli and Eugenio Vitali.
His works are present in numerous public and private collections, including the F. Trisi Library in Lugo, the Headquarters of the Port Authority of Ravenna; the Italian Cultural Institute in Vilnius, the Headquarters of the Legislative Assembly of the Emilia Romagna Region in Bologna, the EEA (European Environment Agency) in Copenhagen, the Headquarters of the Cassa di Risparmio Foundation in Imola, the Maritime Museum in Cesenatico.
