fic moment, a sort of extreme deepening. Today it is not different, I simply put together the elements I studied and loved throughout these decades and reassembled my experiences. My painting is constantly evolving; it is a natural need. It is not forced: it is a symbiosis between painting and myself, which I listen “time after time”. You are a strenuous advocate of tradition, beauty and harmony. How do you consider the future of contemporary art? Do you think a new need for beauty and tradition is developing? I support beautiful painting, be it abstract or figurative. I express myself through representation, but I clearly do not consider it as the only option. I am happy that an end is coming for the arrogant times, which even lasted too long, when figuration was valued as nothing. However, the term tradition is very ambiguous, since it does not mean much for painting. Abstract painting was born more than 100 years ago, therefore it also has a pictorial tradition. Hence, I prefer to quote Vuillard: “It is time for painting to go back to being a difficult task”. Be it abstract or figurative, I do not care. It is enough for it to fulfil its duty: thrill. Not by scandalizing, nor by unproductively provoking, yet by exciting. My wife nailed a table on my easel reporting a sentence by Renard: “Be interesting! No artistic concept gives the right of boring mankind!”
ALESSANDRA REDAELLI
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