Giancarlo Bargoni, an internationally renowned artist
After an initial training at the Barabino art school in Genoa and his figurative beginnings, Giancarlo Bargoni has been creating and exhibiting abstract paintings since 1958. He has taught and still teaches pictorial disciplines and, since the 1990s, has been the protagonist of personal exhibitions, in Italy, Germany and France.
“I paint as quickly as possible because I hope to see the idea that is born in shapes and colors flow directly into the space of the painting, through the hands, the spatulas, the rags, the brushes and the paper…”. This is how the artist defines his painting made up of shapes, colors and, above all, gestures that are transformed into an event of which the canvas does nothing but keep track and memory.
Trace and memory of an energy that itself becomes a work, art, in which Bargoni is today a master.
And given that painting is a pirate art, a trade that cannot be learned, but is 'stolen' from a master by putting oneself on the line, the master always eager for new discoveries, opening his atelier to equally eager students, he lets himself be 'robbed' by transforming his experience, his history, his talent into a gift.