"Vertical Concepts: Dense Darkness - Modern Art" Painting

Bruno Biondi has been colorblind since birth. His condition is called total dyschromatopsia, which is much more severe than basic colour blindness. For him, the lighter the colours, the greyer he sees them; the darker they are, the blacker they are, but the entire colour spectrum is also a very personal world for him. Despite this, he has managed to work as an illustrator, become creative director at an international communications agency, and create many of his works in colour. His colours. When he began painting, starting with figurative art, a fantastical world was born, misunderstood by many; then, the natural evolution was to move to informal art. A sharp and immediate transition. His technique was to use pure colours overlaid with black. Black, the non-colour par excellence, was deeply rooted in his nature, as was white. His strongest and most sincere emotions arose from painting only in black and white. Those works were part of his unique interior world. He has always been fascinated by black-and-white photography because, through that purification, he believed one could achieve more intense formal values. Black and white allows Biondi to be more incisive and innovative. It is his natural way of expressing himself. Even so, he often painted, filling his artworks with a variety of colours, as if they symbolised his inability to assert himself forcefully through his black-and-white poetics. Conforming to a colourful universe dedicated to those who cannot accept that colour exists only when alienated by its neutralisation. Leaving aside Biondi's black-and-white world, it's time to focus on each of his works featuring one or more vertical signs carved or impressed. Even in his early abstract artworks, when he hadn't yet become aware of the term "Vertical Concepts," this word appears almost casually. Thereafter, the title "Vertical Concepts" was consolidated for each artwork. They are vertical signs that enter the canvas from outside and rise upward, others settle in its centre, still others pass through it completely, always vertically. Only in sporadic cases have these same signs been carved horizontally. Vertical Concept is his poetry and his soul. In a society... rushing frenetically toward an increasingly uncertain and unpredictable future, making us unstable and stressed, searching for certainties, a vertical line stands out before everyone's eyes. Instability finds firm, confident signs.