Gerry Mulligan Print

If you would ask Alessandro Curadi if he was first attracted by music or painting, he would be amazed himself and surprised to verify the simultaneity of these two passions or needs, at the point that they have assumed one way only, that’s why he follows and catches facets of the sound of music, and tells the music to the sound of facets, and this happens even in the portraits not related to musicians, where you can perceive a musical tendency, a prosody to the rhythm of the color or the text. Music and paintings speak the same language, they travel in the same direction, such that it seems that you can almost hear these musical paintings. On this track of symbiotic exchange there is almost no difference: the saxophone’s vibrations and those of a deep blue, the warm touch of a guitar and a sunny yellow, but also stronger and uncommon emotional combinations, that make vibrating and alive these notes and color harmony, Curadi describes and paints with competent minimalism, almost suggesting the lines, persistently chasing what is escaping, that you can get with the emotion only. Exploring the lines of a face and its inner roads, the hidden corners, is like traveling inside the man, in the events of the past, in the plot of the soul. Besides the work in the studio, Curadi paints portraits of the musicians exactly when they play: music and painting in a single performance, in a double live, with all the magic of creating without a safety net, live during a concert, impalpable acoustic sensations translate into visual, physical spots, the abstract physicality of the sound materializes, combining with water, light, and color, in ever new snapshots, synthesis of sound and vision. It’s a unique instant, live portraits strike for their happy “impression”: few touches, few traits, and a face becomes alive. It’s peculiar the attempt, the ambition, and even the madness to give sound to a painting or to give a face to a sound. What color is music? What sound has a painting? We don’t care about the answer, we prefer to leave the question pending, and welcome the incitement. Enjoy!