PAOLO MASSIMO RUGGERI    - Italy

PAOLO MASSIMO RUGGERI

Presents his solo exhibition: "An Italian painter on the Côte d’Azur" at the Parc Hôtel Boscolo in Nice.

This exhibition is an encounter with a visionary where all reality is abolished, it immerses us with pleasure in a world of adolescents who couldn't care less about being understood, who oppose academicism as one opposes one's own parents.

Paolo Massimo Ruggeri is perceived as an "animal of art" formed by certain supernatural gifts based on eloquence, staging, and the fascination of light and color.

He lets us enter a bath of passion, of discovery never exhausted where everything is intelligently illuminated in a multiplication of images and ideas on a mixture of colors with no ties to the past.

He creates a new path, a new culture in a physical game to feel better and where depression is excluded.
Malraux said: < The French are sad Italians > Paolo Massimo Ruggeri offers his French fellow citizens a cultural visual program where they find the pleasure of thinking within new lines of force and in a marvel of colors.

< Hats off to the Artist! >.

Paul TOMATIS

Translation from French

PAOLO MASSIMO RUGGERI

Presents his solo exhibition: "An Italian painter on the Côte d’Azur" at the Parc Hôtel Boscolo in Nice.

This exhibition is an encounter with a visionary where all reality is abolished, it immerses us with pleasure in a world of adolescents who couldn't care less about being understood, who oppose academicism as one opposes one's own parents.

Paolo Massimo Ruggeri is perceived as an "animal of art" formed by certain supernatural gifts based on eloquence, staging, and the fascination of light and color.

He lets us enter a bath of passion, of discovery never exhausted where everything is intelligently illuminated in a multiplication of images and ideas on a mixture of colors with no ties to the past.

He creates a new path, a new culture in a physical game to feel better and where depression is excluded.
Malraux said: < The French are sad Italians > Paolo Massimo Ruggeri offers his French fellow citizens a cultural visual program where they find the pleasure of thinking within new lines of force and in a marvel of colors.

< Hats off to the Artist! >.

Paul TOMATIS

                                Relaxing message the painting of
                                                PAOLO MASSIMO RUGGERI

The artists who manage to immediately communicate to their audience at least a part of the sensations they experienced in front of reality, or that enthused them during the creative process (if they paint from imagination), are those who manage to truly enter into the spirit of the themes they tackle and express their contents as if they were part of themselves.

The artist becomes the spokesperson of things, things speak through him and use a simple and accessible language for everyone in the two-way conversation. When a speech is needed to explain a work of art, it is a sign that at least some of the components that should be able to be visually expressed in a complete way are missing.
Art is a form of expressive communication, which must be self-sufficient: it must speak without the need to resort to other means, in order to be understood and even just "felt".

In front of Ruggeri's paintings, we believe that the observer, without exception, is immediately captivated and experiences much of the sensations that the author perceived in his encounter with the reality that impressed him and that he has elaborated to enhance its contents, with a form of "translation" that seeks to make understanding more immediate and complete.

But there are other reasons that explain the happy results achieved by this artist, in addition to those of the happy pictorial mechanics: reasons that rise from deep within and justify his constant state of grace, in front of the spectacle of his paintings.

He began to love painting as a boy, but was only able to devote himself to it after a long wait and after a deep crisis from which only art and this art, practiced in a total sense and in complete abandonment, could have freed him as it did. His spirit needed a complete relaxation that perhaps only painting could give him, but not using painting as a profession or as a distraction.

Paolo Massimo Ruggeri had this favorable atmosphere around him, but the right moment had to come for his state of mind to be able to perceive the hidden contents of the environment, to push him to deepen his observation and try to interpret them. He succeeded and has continued for years now with a passion and enthusiasm that increase as his "craft" allows him to fix, in an ever more immediate and concise way, the characteristics of what has become the object of an emotional exaltation.

We would say that one of the fundamental components, in the heartfelt translations of the artist, is silence; that silence which allows him to concentrate and condense sensations but also to perceive the vibrations of the atmosphere, to scan them in the quick strokes of color that he displays without regrets, sure and precise because everything he has seen is now built inside and only waits to find the means to show and manifest itself even in the subtlest and most hidden values.

Ruggeri's painting is intense, free and full of breath precisely because it has matured in serenity of spirit within him, before he sets in motion the expressive mechanics to bring it to the support he has placed before him and which must become the transmissible document of his emotion. And one always feels the high and deep silence in the temple where the miracle of transfiguration is accomplished by virtue of an ever-inspired "priest" committed to making the propitiatory rite, with a deep spiritual commitment.

 Ursula Petrone