“The aristocratic extrapolation of moments and history” |
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Salvatore Bertollo - Portariat by Erman Krumm |
I think that eclectism and the versatility are key components which characterise the personality of Salvatore Bertollo. Descending from an ancient family Genoese of shipowners and industrialists, he has always grown together with an innate mariner vocation, the love for enterprise and one underground, as intense, artistic urgency that pushes him to fix on the paper moments of life, gestures of memory and certain, beautiful glimpses of history that still survive in the profile of the steep ligurian landscape.
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With the same passion that has always led him to challenge the waves with his Pinta (a sloop rorc) and with the same commitment in the search of new markets for his companies, he changes the dress of the manager to wear the clothes more intimate of the artist to seize with the look the essential of the moment, investigating it with the filter of a personal creative processing, often dissolved by a malicious ironic veiling.
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Portofino |
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Boats at Portofino |
. So are born sketches, rough drafts, explanatory notes, comments of the day; sometimes follow each other as sheets of diary, sketches of family: a trip on boat, an unexpected funny, the humorous gag at the meeting between friends in landing far; more often he extracts from paper landscapes, angles of baroque churches, old parishes, ruins plaited between wood of olive and rocky paths pinned on the sea.
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He works at first draft, with ball-point pen, pencils, fountain-pens; often, in the urgency procedure of creation, uses any white sheet of paper has in hand, prefers the prospects angles, those that climb up on the paper as if they wanted unroll (or disperse?) to approach an improbable piece of sky.
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Santa Margherita Ligure: the harbour |
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