THE VOICE OF CRITICAL Pictures by Gianpiero Actis provide inspiration to writers such as myself: the seascapes, woods and city scenes inspire poetry and poetic prose. In fact, his picture of a street lamp belonging to a past era triggered in me a poem which covered past and present in the life of one couple.
While I was being inspired by his paintings, he meantime had illustrated one of my poems... the subject of AUTUMN produced a marvellous range of Arabic style tiles and friezies by the painter.
Who knows who will inspire who next ?
What I’d like to say to Gianpiero Actis is that we will both continue painting and writing with the hope that more cross fertilisations can take place.
Aeronwy Thomas New Malden, 8th February 2006 Gianpiero Actis chooses his colors and places his lines with great precision and with the insight and the spirit of a great artist.
Together, they create an air of mystery and enchanting harmonies.
His paintings, The Spire and Hills, The Mirror and The Door have lyrical, colorful and surrealistic compositions...
They invite the viewer to enter a world of wonderful concepts, thoughts and emotions.
Adel Gorgy, Long Island, N.Y., 2009 GIANPERO ACTIS: TRA REALTA’ ED ASTRAZIONE Gianpiero Actis è da molti anni che dipinge. Forse da sempre. Da quando era al liceo ed il suo professore History of Art, Richard Bean, known and whimsical painter from Turin, sent her love (I was going to say the virus) for this form of expression that comes from the soul and, like poetry and music, is cultivated, even more than for others, for themselves. That 's what it has always done Gianpiero Actis, though busy with work on another frontier, that of science, to be a doctor. The painter has always come after, in the secrecy of another study, perhaps in memory of the master. As if to chase the dream to match reality and abstraction, inner resonance and geometric rhythms, fragments of reality with the anomalies of existence, the joy of explosive colors with a pristine and orderly world, seen in idealized landscapes beautifully.
generative element, in fact, the representation has never an end in itself. It is often an excuse to come to the composition of forms, tailored for evoking moods or the revelation of a hidden inner world.
The transition from meaning to meaning becomes, therefore, subtle style, which is the unmistakable figure of this painter from Turin, who love duet, as we shall see, with poetry and music. An applicant
figurative element, for example, the work of Actis, is the tree. Many of his works take their name and meaning from this What time is "The Tree of color," an emblematic oil in 1972, now "falling of the leaves" (acrylic, 2006) or "Winter" (acrylic, 2006) and again, the circle of the seasons and memories assigned to this figurative element, "Springtime" (acrylic, 2006). The tree, in these works is the central figure of the composition, almost an archetype Freud tied to a yearning, however, that tree is not. Actis trees, in fact, do not bring "the nidietti spring." They have no leaves. But they have the ability to generate colors, bundles of emotions or woven-leaf that the wind carries away like memories of a time gone by. And that is This, perhaps, that so evocative paintings have been inspired poets, but here is the case with poets say, as Aeronwy Thomas, daughter of one of the greatest English poets of the twentieth century, Dylan Thomas, a friend of Actis and his family frequented by ancient , which often equates the themes of his poetry with those of his paintings in Turin. By comparison, lines and colors will draw on the pages of a nice glossy catalog or in the course of a cultural encounter, which brings together a skilled director, perhaps with background music. Each of these forms of expression, however, follows his way, and rightly so. And where Aeronwy Thomas lingers on storytelling, ie the dynamic themes that are carry out his poetic narrative, Actis takes the shortcut of synthesis. For him, the picture is a painted surface with internal rules that knows how to master it with great ability to reach a certain breathing space from the outside often realistic or imitative. The beams of light, for example, that emanate from such works as "The lamp" or "The spire, two acrylic of 2006, one intuits that go far beyond the limits of the frame, making sense to the user, beyond the nostalgia for a time and a place that had a sense of freedom and the infinite which has as its goal the overcoming of this framework.
In this sense, much of the work is an invention of Actis abstract, even when there is an element generator that wants to keep us in some way related to reality. And on this front is that its themes lend themselves to trigger interference with the arts and the arts, as often happens in meetings organized by the "Picture & Poetry," an artistic and literary movement led by Lidia Chiarelli and opened a few years ago turin, in which painting, poetry and music come together with results of extraordinary effectiveness.
Francesco Prestipino, Torino, 2009 The painting is deceptively simple but certainly immediate Gianpiero Actis, explicit in its clarity and rigor to define colors and contours, reveals a strong link with the experiments of the twentieth century. The last century is packed and left to settle in the human spirit that watched, appreciated, studied and developed the art who has lived in his younger years and that only later, long after he started to produce in person.
The artistic experience of the century became the basis of a pictorial language that finds its realization in the spontaneity and instinctive in the synthesis of multiple trends and rich. The various influences are present but blended so as to become a unitary expression and strongly consistent. Since "every painter paints himself" here is that spontaneity and instinctive synthesis us back to the man together rigor and always looking for clarity. A complex artistic heritage meets the definition of charm and spontaneous rigor creates art that brings the scent of the last century in the pleasure of watching again.
Massimo Alfano, Torino, 2008 Iridal stylized shapes and colors for a painting suffused with lyricism Gianpiero Actis has a direct relationship with science and the phenomenology of vision in that eye specialist and creator of ' images, works to see. However, the paintings of characters not related to medical science, since the paintings do not stem from scientific rationality or theoretical information, but I fount emotional impulse of sudden and spontaneous movements of mind, or are inspired by the word opera, from poems or literary passages is very suggestive. This results in the limit of recognizable stylized forms, a balance between figuration and abstraction, identifiable and informal, in a riot of colors in opposition to alternating hot and cold, clear and strong, saturated and unsaturated, in accordance with the range contained in "optical window", which radiates the frequencies of the colors of the rainbow. The evolution of forms is always dynamic, fluid and centrifuge in a desire to "escape" radiocentric to an infinite limit, a metaphor for a utopian desire for cosmic expansion of the soul, which sees the difficulties of constraint on earth. The poems are inspiring a dignified excuse to express, through morfocromatismi, the anxieties of contemporary life in the souls of thinking, which reinterprets Actis lyrical, painterly in parallel, the anxieties of humanity impatient dell'asfissiante farrago modernist. Often the subject of art evoke the invoice stylized different configurations ideal natural or metaphysical or surreal, and confirm the author's propensity to reconstruct the scenic views according to an idea of \u200b\u200bsimplicity, almost primordial innocence, to return to the imaginary that dwells in the mind, heart and feelings of pure spirits. The geometric stylization is the extension the ancient philosophical principle that "AEI or gheometrei Theos" (God geometrizes always). In the latest stylistic abbreviations and lyrical themes Actis expressionist painting recalls the Futurist avant-garde forms that enhances, however, the speed of the machines, but outside the agitation excited interiority.
Enzo Pope, Torino, 2008 The user who is observing the painting Gianpiero Actis has won immediately clear from the expressive palette, where the subjects emerge in a language like sequences in moving scenic and open to continuous elusive spaces, in the splendor of the embrace lyrical color, which expands beyond from figuration and tactile surfaces.
In the works published here and dedicated to the stories of Italo Calvino, for the eponymous exhibition, the painter explodes in a bath of genuine poetry, shapes, colors and atmospheres win an endless page of pathos, where the poetic mood lights multisensory striking metamorphosis, including instinctive shoots suffused with emotional narratives, as well as the volumes and the definitions of personal time, highlighted by epiphanies and chore language declined in the whispers of the expropriation of color. The compositions of each
Gianpiero ownership of material is put into regenerating size and exploratory, and lexical and semantic orders reflect the authenticity of the flows and perceptions, pour the hot poetry, which rises in the dawn of dream creations. "
Cardaci Basilio, San Remo, 2010 The lively and constructive genius supported by a wise use of technology creates an eye-catching creation revealing the artistic depth.
Anna Francesca Biondolillo, Palermo, 2010 In the paintings of Gianpiero Actis, colors, lines, shapes and perspectives are pieced together in intricate visual puzzles. His work joins elements of geometric abstraction, Which Is traditionally devoid of imagery, reminiscent of Mondrian, with the dreamlike surrealist pictorial elements of de Chirico and Magritte.
But, unlike Mondrian, who did not venture past pure shape and primary colors, and unlike the surrealists, whose dreams can fracture into discordant or disturbing images, in the paintings of Gianpiero Actis, there is a prismatic break into an altered landscape—a landscape that is not dark or troubled but bright and full of hope.
In his work, symbols, some ancient, some universal, some so mysterious they are known only to him, lead the viewer to open doors, sometimes actual doors, to both the landscape of the painting and the landscape of the mind. He invites us to enter his own, personal world, and it is an uplifting universe of pure color and light.
Mary Gorgy, Long Island, N. Y., 2010 Exposure to
Piemonte Artistico Culturale. works Gianpiero Actis, ophthalmologist with a strong artistic interest, are made with mixed media and some tending to formal experimentation, like butterflies, with references naive framework in which two paintings are overlaid to produce a second floor on which to living creatures, who free themselves from the background, but not detached, but even amalgamating. Actis is a founding member of the Movement "Picture & Poetry" for interaction and integration of the arts, his creations are in fact the germ in their poems, and sometimes even in dreams.
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instructions to the painters and poets, drawn from the poetry of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a great eye stands out among a profusion of soft colored shapes referring to the eyes light-bearers of the poem.
Amber Micheletto, Torino
Il Corriere dell 'Arte February 11, 2011
