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Vincenzino Vanetti’s existential expressionism

March 21 thru May 23, 2004
Open on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays  from 10.00  to 12.00 am, and from 03.00 to 06.00 pm.
Tickets: € 2.60   Cut-rate tickets:  € 1.60

Inauguration on Saturday, March 20 2004 - 5.00 pm

Vincenzino Vanetti is an artist from Luino, but he worked for many years in Maccagno.  That’s why we feel we can say we know him, not just as an artist but as a man as well: an introverted, original and impulsive man. From this knowledge stemmed our desire to display his works that are an expression the human anguish that results from having to face the difficulties, the precariousness, and the basic injustice of life.

This artist describes elongated figures with vivid colors and brushes that have no doubts as to how to represent the sufferance in the looks of those people refused by society. These are men and women rejected by their own communities, or that have voluntarily decided not to let society assimilate them, and to keep away from any kind of social life. These are the beggars, the homeless, the refugees that roam with no aim in painful solitude.

His artistic path - which ultimately is not just artistic but psychological, too - is an intensely dramatic kind of art clearly inspired by German expressionism: a universe of colors, shapes and simple movements that make his sculptures and paintings a triumph of honesty and brutality.

Vanetti is extremely good at forcing us not to look the other way and just walk by.  Before his works we can’t deny a helping hand to the many unlucky people that our society’s  “respectabilty” sentences to degradation and uttermost alienation.  In those people we find a part of humanity that demands our attention and asks to be accepted and loved.
 

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