Lorenzo Giandotti

Italy, 1935

“…Giandotti’s painting is the painting of silence, a silence leading to contemplation of life’s thing, where we can taste their essentiality, we can enter the matter and know their nature; he can reduce all of this in simple color, in fiction, to imitate one truth and try to reach it. A technique ability that allows him to catch the chromatic vibration of stones, of plaster, wood and glass in which time has left its signs.

In his paintings there’s a relation with life, with the reality, meant as the interior affects and emotions, a cultural memory where it is possible to find subjects left by the past times.

A metaphysic painting, a narrative ambiguity where doors and windows always slightly opened allude to a human presence, never described but always evoked…”