Claudio Coltorti
Holding firm to the constant practice of drawing, which returns to his charcoal production, Coltorti's work declines towards the pictorial medium, initially addressing the representation of objects that retain traces of the passage of human presence. The choice of the small format amplifies the intimate aspect of the work, which acquires further resonance when the privileged subject becomes the human figure. Captured in intimate situations, often in relationship with other objects that highlight certain parts of their bodies, these characters with only hinted at physiognomic features and an unclear gender seem to retreat into private worlds, circumscribed by their own features. The pictorial drafting proceeds from color to shape, which emerges in an almost casual and instinctive manner from the background. The oil technique allows the artist to return to the subject several times, so each work lives on not only its conceptual but also material stratifications.
Coltorti is part of an international trend that looks at the introspective and existential side: even when they refer to situations that include references to current news or politics, the images he creates are always filtered through individual experiences and sensations because, as the artist states, "I paint what I live." The work is thus configured not in ordered cycles but each painting refers to the …
Holding firm to the constant practice of drawing, which returns to his charcoal production, Coltorti's work declines towards the pictorial medium, initially addressing the representation of objects that retain traces of the passage of human presence. The choice of the small format amplifies the intimate aspect of the work, which acquires further resonance when the privileged subject becomes the human figure. Captured in intimate situations, often in relationship with other objects that highlight certain parts of their bodies, these characters with only hinted at physiognomic features and an unclear gender seem to retreat into private worlds, circumscribed by their own features. The pictorial drafting proceeds from color to shape, which emerges in an almost casual and instinctive manner from the background. The oil technique allows the artist to return to the subject several times, so each work lives on not only its conceptual but also material stratifications.
Coltorti is part of an international trend that looks at the introspective and existential side: even when they refer to situations that include references to current news or politics, the images he creates are always filtered through individual experiences and sensations because, as the artist states, "I paint what I live." The work is thus configured not in ordered cycles but each painting refers to the others, and all together they present themselves as pieces of a single non-linear story in time.
Collezione Morra Greco, Collezione De Iorio
