Palazzo dei Capitani, Ascoli Piceno 1995
Tomorrow, the exhibition of the works of Igino Stella will be closed at Palazzo dei Capitani
The zest for life comes from the polychromies
ASCOLI PICENO – Palazzo dei Capitani will hold until tomorrow an anthology of Igino Stella. The exhibition includes seventy oils on canvas, realized since 1970, and a recent selection of sculptures which completes the intellectual-artistic iter. In spite of his chronological age, Stella has the enthusiasm and the zest for life, typical aspects of the adolescence. His spirit directly turns out in his works, and his essence is represented in those games of light and colours. The artist tells about himself, and he states:”First, there is the man”; the man Stella has suffered and cried, but this doesn’t appear in the work. On the contrary, the strength and the happiness that have been generated are in the creations. Self-taught and genuine, Stella immediately hits the target, that is the human soul: he develops lots of emotions that upset each one of us at different levels. In “Notes d’un peintre”, Matisse wrote:”The composition is the art of put together the different elements that the painter has to express his own feelings in a decorative way”. Stella begins his story with the use of primary colours at the pure state on a midnight blue bottom. The pigment coagulates and acquires appearance with geometric or harmonious forms, and it scans the rhythm of an interior melody. It also steal the essence of the spectator that is captured and swallowed up in a vortex. The painting of Igino Stella is an essential abstractism: it’s a playful abstraction like the abstraction of Mirò or Calder, led by the strength of the love for life. So, it is neither the cartesian perfection like the painting of Mondrian nor the cultured “naivety” of Kandinskij. Dante said:”The love that moves the sun and the other stars”: an universal and powerful love that becomes magnificent in all the forms that we can give it.
Georgia Bava