Brizzo

He was born in Copertino (Le) in 1978 and lives in Lecce. His work was born out of love at first sight: when he was at high school, he discovered an abstract watercolour by Kandynsky (1913 composition). From that moment on it was a life choice; the first impact of the vision that immediately stimulated a desire: to understand why. Over time, he moved away from traditional art, breaking with the past, out of an instinct for recognition. He developed a personal figurative language that recalls complex metaphysical enigmas: “We must get out of the trap, avoid copying, but instead re-propose and recreate”. The idea became his first oil on canvas, which is the reproduction of a photo portrait of a bicycle on a bridge over a Dutch canal. He is attracted by the lines, the supporting structures of what is no longer the image, but the mental perception of it. It is not a realistic reproduction, but a new use of colours, a different vision. His idea of art, which recalls Woody Allen, comes from a personal pessimism, and is not based on pre-established canons. Everything is consciously reproduced in its opposite, different from how it actually is. His artistic maturity is linked to a retro period of lines that give shape to his innermost thoughts.