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A very special portraits are that ordered by
Costa Crociere for the two last-born ships of the fleet.
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above and below: particulars
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PAOLO FORTI portrait, full professor in Geomorfology and e Spelaeology at
BOLOGNA UNIVERSITY
The painting is devoted to increase the portraits collection kept in the
Rectorate.
The canvas is crowded by heterogeneous and apparently chaotic objects,
scattered in a "creative confusion", attesting the life style of
Paolo Forti, dynamic, not much formal, but essential, pragmatic.
Even though the centre of the pictorial installation is the Observatory Tower
of the Bologna University, inscribed in three concentric rectangles, the focus
of the portrait are the Forti's eyes (and, therefore, his attitude) always
attentive and, at the same time, straightforward to any interlocutor.
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The extraordinary personality of the subject is represented by twenty
symbolical elements scattered on four levels: University Life, University
Spirit, Spelaeology, Eros.
Last two are linked with Art Love by means of the ivory sculpture belonging to
Forti's collection. It shows, simultaneously, the harmony in sex (the lingam
and the cave of Shiva and his partner Parvati) and the couple stability.
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2008 - Oil, acrylic, alchydic, pencil, golden leaf, on canvas - cm 70x90
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PROFESSOR MARK PEARCE PORTRAIT ex SHERWOOD HALL WARDEN, Fundus UNIVERSITY
OF NOTTINGHAM
The paint is located in the Sherwood Hall Gallery where all the previous
College's Wardens are represented.
The work is a deeply symbolic depiction of the person, in his double role:
English College's Warden and Archeologist in Italy.
In the left window there is an image of Castiglione Chiavarese valley
(Liguria), where Professor Pearce found a prehistorical copper mine. Below, on
the sofa there is a speleological-helmet representing the energy of the
exploration on the field, in contrast with the sofa, symbol of the reflection
times that must to precede and to follow the action.
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above: particular
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On the right door-window, in logical connection with the left landscape, is
depicted the most representative Sherwood Hall building, in its coat of arms
there is a oak symbol of the famous Sherwood Forest.
The person don't look at the building (it's a past assignment) nor at
Castiglione (it's an achieved experience). He is looking at the infinite,
thinking at future researches. The smile is illegible, sardonic, like the real
person: serious but ironic; playful but professional; disillusioned but
committed.
2007
oil e acrylic on canvas
cm 90x11 0
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In Riviera with Barchetta (portrait of Roberta), 2000
water-colour, cm 28x28 - Series "Driving Women"
For Bixio the portrait is an alibi for going into his own suggestions and to
reproduce on the paint the symbols inspired by the person.
The coming works pass over the traditionals iconographical schemas, where the
decoration and the location became themselves leading actors of a jigsaw puzzle
built by evocations and evolved in a tale.
The frequent neglect use of the name (in the title) and of the nose in the face
are distinctives signs.
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Milord, 2000
water-colour, cm 30x45
The Princess of the purple pearls, 2003
water-colour and gold, cm 28x28
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Sunrise (portrait of Ayça), 2004 water-colour and gold, cm
30x20
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Rita, the artist's wife, 1980
water-colour and pencil sketch, cm 20x23
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