Agostino Veroni

Agostino Veroni was born in Livorno, as a child he shows interest in drawing and colors. At sixteen, by chance, during a dinner at the home of his paternal grandfather he meets the painting master Ferruccio Mataresi. The meeting marks the first decisive step in his career. He begins shortly thereafter, and in effect, continues for years to study with Mataresi with whom he studied classical design. Veroni though does not stop at design itself; he discovers more and more importance in his desire for color, and the physical medium on the canvas. The master Giulio da Vicchio encourages him to follow his instincts as a colourist. With the master Masaniello Luschi he explores this concept starting to paint from real life; he researches the coastal areas, the surrounding countryside. After this comes the turning point; Veroni combines first mentally, then on the canvas, the design, the color caught en plein air. The drawing takes a secondary place behind the chromatic sense given by the combination of colors and the bold energetic brushstroke. In certain paintings it is possible to see an evolution towards the abstract especially in some sea storms where the drawn figure is absorbed by the contrast of colors and the combination of light a...

The poetry of a moment in the colours of Agostino Veroni’s language of painting

By Giammarco Puntelli
Art Critic


It is pure poetry.
Agostino Veroni’s painting, his art, his work lead us into a particular state of the soul made of real poetry, elegance, formal harmony.
He comes from Livorno and is therefore linked to the Tuscan tradition, which, though it is clear in his work, is nevertheless, an influence that he manages to foster, innovating and personalizing his themes.
His work comes in cycles and we will find landscapes of the countryside, seascapes, flowers, all those visions that make of him a questioner who is able turn himself into a formalist or even a meta-formalist capable of changing a whole Copernican system with each gesture he makes and with the colours he finds.
He has learnt Turner’s lesson – how to dissolve form through colour.
And it is precisely colour which turns out to be Agostino Veroni’s great obsession, his major field of research, the instrument through which he reads his own spirituality as well as the landscape in question or whatever else he might have decided to paint.
In him the lessons to be learnt from the French Impressionists are still in force: he does not so much paint a landscap...

Last Exhibitions:
- February 2014 Tuscan Art Tour, Chicago e Naples (Florida)
- Summer 2014 Galleria Aquilegia, Sarzana
- August 2014 San Pantaleo, Sardegna
- August 2014 Cantine Surrau, Porto Cervo
- September 2014 Palazzo Rospigliosi, Zagarolo Roma
- April 2015 Palazzo Bernabei, Assisi
- May 2015 Art Gallery Lazzaro-Corsi, Milan
- June 2015 L’Arte e il Tempo Palazzo Giureconsulti, Milano
- July 2015 Teatro dei Dioscuri Quirinale, Roma
- October 2015 Museo Piaggio, Pontedera
- January 2016 Mantegna's House, Mantova
- March 2016 Palazzo Gallio, Gravedona, Lake of Como