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03/23/2009: "The artist’s Journey."
It seems as though my best results are achieved through the continually mediated presence of an awareness and appreciation of an existence in which all the possible artifice of narration has lost its significance.
I represent apparently everyday situations, but which are actually suffused by a mysterious atmosphere, penetrating and refuting any semblance of normality.
Consequently, a man smoking or a woman lying on a bed are no longer representations of ordinary gestures or habits, but become enigmatic representations, tending towards other possibilities. So the background may no longer be a bar, a bedroom, or a road, but time, space, or death.
Even painting, in its way, tries to measure itself against aspects that continually evade us.
The painting on my canvas seems to be of highly realistic. However, if you look carefully at it, you will see that the figures in it are completely isolated from each other. The composition does not represent a scene, but rather, it shows various situations. It is both all true and all false. I cannot illustrate: I pretend to tell a story, and this fictional work contains my idea of the world in which we live and of how to fix things. I don’t paint anything that is actually occurring, but always think of something different from what seems to be the subject of the painting. (…) The painting is the artist’s “journey” while it is in the studio, on the artist’s easel. Then it will acquire new energy, travelling through the eyes of those who are looking at it, adding and subtracting from it, finding references in it that the artist had not even imagined. At that moment the “journey” is no longer the artist’s, but that of the observer.
Our identity derives from a comparison with others, or even a rivalry, and is constructed through a formative process offering us cultural references, in the sense of knowledge of the world around us.
Who we are, where we come from, and where we are going … are all eternal questions that our intellectual curiosity continues to reflect upon, searching for answers.
Sometimes, when we are young, we think we have found “the missing link”. As time passes, everything mellows: what once seemed to be simple and essential needs to be regarded with other eyes. But everything that we have been, or that we have thought we were, that we have loved or refused, stays with us.
However, I have always thought that painting is a kind of laboratory to gain an understanding of the artist, even going beyond what an artist actually thinks he believes. But it could also be said that art is able to unify what seems to have been divided.
Alberto Sughi, Rome 2009
(translated by Joelle Crowle)
Title of the painting: At the end of the day, Oil of canvas, 140x160cm, 2009
For more info on Alberto Sughi see. www.albertosughi.com
Replies: 25 Comments
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The painting on my canvas seems to be of highly realistic
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It has nothing to do with desire or with supply of amazing art, it is just the reality of the world we live in now and setting priorities.
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wow this is so myterious! I liked the story and I wil share it with my friends, think they will lied it so much as I did.
on Monday, September 14th, Art Smith said
Interesting work, I like the idea of "painting is a kind of laboratory", it is always experimental.
on Monday, September 14th, Tiffany Bracelets said
That this same awareness is aware of such a vastness represented by Sughi's choice of colour.
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One day I will try to start a new discussion around the painting that goes under the title of "Ruling class".
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Would love to participate in a discussion on that piece.
on Saturday, September 12th, Original Degree said
It looks empty at a glance but it speaks out for itself. It's mysterious and it's beautiful
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The art speaks of the artist to the viewer in many voices.
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It looks empty at a glance but it speaks out for itself. It's mysterious and it's beautiful.
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on Thursday, August 27th, Fan of yellow said
The true mystery of the world is the visible. Thanks for sharing these beautiful yet expressive paintings and words.
on Tuesday, August 25th, JaninVan said
The second painting is almost putting of a sad vibe. I love the use of the yellow's
on Tuesday, April 21st, Alberto Sughi said
Vorrei ringraziare tutti coloro che hanno partecipato a questo mio blog attraverso attenti e gentili commenti che apprezzo e condivido. Un giorno provero' anche ad iniziare una nuova discussione sul quadro intitolato "Ruling Class" Un caro saluto Alberto Sughi.
I would like to thank all of you for having participated to this blog of mine through careful and kind comments. I appreciated your comments and I feel I can entirely share with you their meaning. One day I will try to start a new discussion around the painting that goes under the title of "Ruling class".
For now best wishes to you all.
Alberto Sughi
on Thursday, April 16th, fused glass jewelry said
On the www.albertosughi.com website there is a very powerful painting called "ruling class". Would love to participate in a discussion on that piece.
on Saturday, April 11th, dichroic jewelry said
Though the figures are isolated, I still saw them as part of a whole. The beauty of reality is that the story it tells, no matter how disjointed or random, still tells a real story. The beauty of art is that no matter what the artist creates, the viewer gets to create their own story.
on Thursday, March 26th, JC-ads said
It looks empty at a glance but it speaks out for itself. It's mysterious and it's beautiful.:-)
on Wednesday, March 25th, Ellen said
The painting is mysterious and penetrate the mind and the emmotions, in my opinion, because of the fascinating dynamics and tensions created by the figures and their juxtaposition to the backgrounds, the brush strokes, the composition and placements. The art speaks of the artist to the viewer in many voices.
on Tuesday, March 24th, Adrian said
That this same awareness is aware of such a vastness represented by Sughi's choice of colour.
on Tuesday, March 24th, elevator said
"’s" -chinese? What is the meaning?
