Enrico Campioli

1968 Parma.ENRICO has started painting in 1992, by revealing himself as an introvert author. His first pictures show a strong proneness to abstract painting, expressed by whirls of colors and shades symbolizing peace, restfulness, as well as pain. His shapes seem at first glance to come out from multiple levels of different brightness so as to get directly in touch with the onlooking people (THE MASK in Italian LA MASCHERA). Then they blend again with the background. With a curious and sensitive temper, the artist represents his inner travel through spirals (THE VORTEX in Italian IL VORTICE) wrapping themselves in an imaginary space leading to absolute peace. Even if he likes to retire into himself, ENRICO is nevertheless able to express his delight at painting, by letting motions of enthusiasm and flashes of fantasy rise (VAULTINGS in Italian VOLTEGGI). The endless changing of emotions and the transformation of painting techniques make each one of his pictures a unique and true work of art, fruit of an untiring research

CURRICULUM AS A PAINTER

2003 OCTOBER, PARTICIPATION IN THE VIRTUAL EXHIBITION "IMMIGRATI", IN WEB SITE, WITH THE DRAWING INTITLED "EUROLANDIA"

2003 PUBLISHING OF PAINTINGS IN

2003 PUB...

ARTISTIC MANIFESTO

It is weird to write a manifesto when I am against manifestos. At the roots of my painting there are, nevertheless, ideas which have been followed and matured. First of all the search for beauty: it is also important how you reach it, but that one is still the goal. When I paint I try to create something I like, something beautiful to me, which I perceive as beautiful, and which makes me feel good emotions: I think that my paintings are beautiful. My art is fundamentally this: the search for beauty. Secondly, but still important, I put the way I paint. Painting is a joy: I love painting and I paint what I love. When you do something with pleasure you put in your creation that certain something, whose absence becomes clear when you do something with unwillingness, for duty, or for other reasons. Painting is so beautiful to me that I would do it anyway simply because I enjoy doing it. The appreciation of beauty by other people is rewarding, it encourages and develops, nevertheless it is something which comes after, which increases pleasure in carrying out the next works; it isn't able to create alone the love for painting. The third, but not less important, element is to break rules. This point is perhaps th...