A new page in painting The faces robustly outlined by Arrigo, with powerful volumetry and tormented colour, succeed in expressing the beauty of that humanity that western man considers “different” and at the same time the risk to which that…
Continue ReadingThe estetic of commotion Someone says that a real artist should be recognisable in any of its works. That a subtle and invisible thread inevitably crosses the thematic and expressive disparities. That authentic artists substantially cannot renounce to carry inside…
Continue ReadingLORENZO CANOVA Between light and oblivion Sumptuous and rational, Baroque and minimalist, classical and anti-classical: continuing and renewing a millenary tradition of thought and creation, Arrigo Musti’s painting is worked out through the paradoxical logic of oxymoron and union of…
Continue Readingfrom Skira catalogue 54° Venice Biennale "Art is not Cosa Nostra" - Italian Pavilion 2011 by Vittorio Sgarbi (pag. 24-26) "...Why should we hide from peple the fact that the so called "contemporary" art, this brand image invented from scratch…
Continue ReadingImmolated Faces “There is a country where men condemn women to the punishments of hell; a country where women, mostly very young, are disfigured with sulphuric acid” – thus writes Renata Pisu in her documented report on Bangladesh; women forced…
Continue ReadingYour painting is so strong that it makes one tremble. I find it very interesting. Your work, so well described by Calvesi and Monferini, lends itself well to personal exhibitions or at most to exhibitions of two artists when the…
Continue ReadingThe new perspectives in figurative art Getting in contact with Arrigo’s painting has meant to me the discovery of new perspectives in figurative art. His cycle Acid Rain is not a simple warning scream, but also an incitement to slow…
Continue ReadingIn colour, in darkness Disintegration and fragmentariness are associated, with impetus, and above all with their charge of primitive pain, with the spiritual and at once biological request that, in this young and mature painting presses forward from Arrigo Musti…
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