Sky Containers 1994 35x42 - Huge

Year1994

Hand SignedLower Right in Acrylic 

Condition Excellent 

Not Framed 

Purchased fromOther 

Story / Additional InfoPainting done in acrylic and collage on wood that represents a crossroads between two roads of the city of Imola. Gottarelli writes: "At the intersection of two roads: at nine o'clock in the 24th of July, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine, I arrive, on Monday, to the crossroads between Via Cavour and Via Maghinardo, near the city centre. I need to keep my eyes on a landscape seen the day before: a row of shutters that go away in the middle of an alley on the side of a house, everything is seen from a point of view that I find already occupied by two people which have already preceded me. I make the decision to wait until they leave. I need that point and only that one, but the two women seem fixed like a pedestal and now I hear their voices, their insistence on the wrong and on the right. I have to see the whole of the alley, and only from that visual spot, one can do justice to its grandeur and only from there, I can push on the colours of the windows". 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID156760

Tonino Gottarelli - Italy

Art Brokerage: Tonino Gottarelli Italian Artist: b. 1920-2007. Tonino Gottarelli was born in 1920 in a little street in the centre of Imola, which was to have a strong influence on his way of life. He started to teach history and geography at a middle school, until his interests moved into the field of child psychology and he became an elementary school teacher in the outlying areas of the Imola district. He wrote and painted continually. His first solo exhibition of paintings was held in Faenza in 1960. This was followed in 1966 by a more mature exhibition in Paris, which led to an invitation to the "Salone di Maggio". His love of nature prompted him to move around continuously, from one house to another, until he finally settled in the Pediano area of Imola, where he stayed for almost 15 years, in a very isolated house where he attempted to breed horses. He then started to write a collection of philosophical/love letters, in the form of a diary, which he published much later, at the end of 1981, with the title "Lettere Inutili". His philosophy and poetry acquired a new depth, and his passions achieved an echo of an existential dimension, the profound, continual tension of his state of mind, in this prose. This was the year that Gottarelli moved from the country into the city, to Via Spaventa. However, his thoughts and poetry were not disturbed, but acquired an inner strength that differed from his impressionistic works. Continuing his artistic ambivalence with the same fervor, he achieved equally important results and one could say that his poetry is "talking paintings" and his paintings "silent poetry". Tonino Gottarelli died February 20, 2007. Original painting wanted.