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ULI MAYER

ART "FROM" THE HEART ...and of the "strength of feelings"

Pop Art? Transavantgarde? Eclecticism? It is difficult, indeed impossible, to give a label to Ivana Castelliti's art. An art that comes from the soul, from the heart... from those profound feelings that can be read on his canvases and that the artist composes with the primary aim of transmitting his sensations and emotions to a spectator who cannot help but remain amazed. It bestows joy and dispenses happiness without setting limits of any kind. An art, this one by Castelliti, which is a synthesis of all the currents of the 20th century and beyond. Some works or details or techniques have their roots in the first cave paintings, gradually passing through Giotto, the Renaissance, the Pre-Raphaelites, Romanticism and what each of us can imagine by scrutinizing these paintings in depth which reawaken hidden feelings or even, lost.

An art that finds its most intimate roots in nature, "(re)assembled" with mixed techniques to give the observer that privileged gaze that only the "gods" can evoke. And like apostles, ready to receive the lesson, we stand in front of these paintings that speak of love, peace, fairy tales and the roots of life itself. A life that flows placidly and impetuously as in the passing of time. Works that speak of passions, of intimacy but also of everyday life and of those "public" areas that free us from every heritage and make us see more possible worlds. And Castelliti's great ability to "show" the world from multiple angles is an immense, extraordinary, unique quality, aimed at making the viewer see things that he would not normally see with eyes accustomed to this. An artist who investigates those gray areas that are part of everyday life and which are now thawed in this play of colors and shapes that everyone knows but which take on other (and high) values on these canvases which come to life as if moved by waves sent by Poseidon himself. And let's think about "The Wonders of the Sea" which shows us a "new" world without tension and without harming anyone. A work that makes you dream in its playful simplicity of art "for others". Works that have incredible energy and tend to put us in osmotic harmony with the world: "Spatial Waves and... Temporal Waves" awakens us from the torpor of the freezing winter of the mind clouded by impure thoughts; a "strong" and intense work that directly transmits an energy lost in the depths of the mind; a force without inhibitory brakes that "kicks" powerfully to "see the light" and "make it seen". That light that in "Earth and Sun..." goes to the source of energy itself: energy that allows us to "be", to think, to believe and not to be fragments of life lost in the air... These are just examples of how Ivana Castelliti's works create a "new world" that does not hesitate to make itself known. A lost world full of life in every particle of it. The material(s) that the artist places on the canvases are the most disparate. The canonical ones but also everyday objects which here take on a different type of value. An art that places no limits on its complex structure in its simplicity. And for this reason it is capable of reaching everyone. And this is the greatest force released by canvases that were once defenseless and now active and pulsating in every part. Power of feelings and love continually evoked in a cheerful and positive game that is almost impossible to find. A mental attitude, that of the artist, which is found in his pictorial "affirmations" which, seen from every perspective, take on infinite possibilities. Space/time no longer exists. You float in an existence outside the known boundaries. White and hyperchromatic spaces just waiting to be "seen" and "captured" by the observer. And we, spectators, are greedy and cannot help but enjoy such richness. Being able to see the world without borders and limitations. This is what Ivana Castelliti gives us. A world where you don't have to be afraid to express yourself and wander into the galaxies of our/your/their soul...

Uli Mayer

ROSSELLA PESCE

A joyful riot of brilliant colours, punctuated by material counterpoints of waste and objects, erupts on Ivana Castelliti's canvases, evoking a sort of exuberance of life, of playful enchantment, of freshness and grace. The serial elements: flowers, ladybugs, luminescent splinters... seem to allude to the magical-Pythagorean numerical value, as a secret harmony that regulates the world, revealing that vital throb that the artist's intuition is capable of sensing, recreating, and to be used for the seduction of the perceptive and mental gaze of others.

Rossella Pesce

BARBARA VINCENZI

Ivana Castelliti, a spontaneous painter, with inspirations from the landscape of Lake Maggiore, captures on canvases the atmospheres and emotions of her soul in a personal dimension of full subjectivity. Visitors to the exhibitions praise her for the splendor of her colors and compositions, others for some of her symbolic elaborations. His choice of colors is careful in each painting and contains a small, defined world, which reveals the author's sensations, his emotions in the abandonment of an enchanting creative moment, which distract us, for a moment, from the frenetic daily existence.

Barbara Vincenzi

LILIANA NOBILE

The past fully enters the present of the artist Ivana Castelliti, who dialogues with others to enhance the meaning of our life. Everyday life is nourished by past moments, crucial to knowing that we have lofty tasks to achieve: knowledge, creation, technique, professionalism are pieces that when put together determine the essence of human life. In his work, a tribute to "Napoleon Bonaparte", Castelliti makes use of the mix of materials to offer us a lively result that celebrates a triumph, despite the historical fall of the depicted subject, who, as an incomparable model, contributed to making the light shine of reason.

Liliana Nobile

EMILIO CONCIATORI

Ivana Castelliti gave me the pleasure of seeing that there are still those who have the strength to free themselves from the ugly illusions that imprison us every day and give art back its most archaic and profound meaning; what it was born for at the beginning of time: to be a magical spell, capable of materializing our deepest desires with the creative force that resides in our divine soul. And Ivana's desires, as can be seen from her works, are of the purest and noblest and the liveliness of the colors she uses with enthusiasm show us that her faith is unshakable and happy. In her paintings there is no room for any doubt or fear, there is no complaint of any kind because she has understood well what the secret recipe to use is for the spell to be fulfilled. And if everyone took his example, I am sure that soon there would be a happier humanity, capable of enjoying "the sun" among "butterflies" again, in a field overflowing with "colorful daisies".

Emilio Conciatori

SALVATORE RUSSO

We could define Ivana Castelliti's pictorial works as authentic visual poems in which the rhythm is given by the compositional rationality with which the Artist decides to deal. Thus informal works come to life, sometimes enriched by a figuration that appears in the form of a puzzle and as a contemporary material piece. Anyone who stands in front of one of his works cannot help but reflect on its meaning. The Artist goes beyond the banality of an academic figuration to reach the conceptual universes that wander in the depths of the psyche in search of that tacit saying that screams to be brought back to light. Paris and its romanticism very often become the object of Ivana's investigation. This is how works dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte, Disneyland Paris, the Eiffel Tower and Paris were born. Here the comparison with one of the greatest exponents of Nouveau Realisme, Fernandez Arman, comes naturally, but unlike the artist friend of Pierre Restany, Ivana Castelliti abandons the accumulation of objects to give them a different spatial location and enrich them through informal painting that resides in his soul. Life experiences that constitute real visual narratives capable of creating an autobiographical diary on the canvas. The Artist refuses any intellectual shortcut until he reaches "other" realities than those known. With the art of Ivana Castelliti emotions overcome and finally the cosmos becomes a tangible entity.

Salvatore Russo

MARIA TERESA PRESTIGIACOMO

Her paintings are flashbacks of emotions experienced intensely along her travels that take her far away, they are a miscellany of elements that the artist brings with her, immobile witnesses but which seem to have a soul: they tell stories of lives lived intensely, capturing the fleeting moment and the soul of things.

Maria Teresa Prestigiacomo

ROMANO PELATI

When we talk about Art we also talk about pictorial trends such as the Real, the Surreal, the Abstract and the Informal. Today the artist is free to write and describe, narrate his travels, interpret the materials that nature offers us and above all create true musical compositions, like a true composer and as the creator of pictorial objects and subjects. Today we're talking about Ivana Castelliti, an original artist who offers us "brilliant" works made up of precious materials, such as beads, corals, buttons, powders and colour. Using Collage to interpret her materials, Ivana constructs the work, which has several adjectives within it: it is a poetic, musical, beautiful and chromatic work. These are challenging compositions that require patience and precision. Looking at them it almost feels like reading a musical score: on one side you see a color, then you look at the other and see others with just as many shades; the whole creates the work, the sound, the poetry, the creative work of the artist. Today it is not easy to find what we call the new in Art, but there is always the freedom to express our emotions through our research, through combinations of very different materials, through our interpretations. His works always have something to say.

Romano Pelati

FRANCESCO CHETTO

His works confirm a creative research, conducted with valid expressive talent, difficult to find in the now suffocated artistic panorama that surrounds us. His art is born from his free and intimate emotions as an artist, filtered by his magical inner vision, transporting onto the canvas the diary of an exciting chromatic journey.

Francesco Chetto

DANIELE RADINI TEDESCHI

From the book "L'esausta clessidra" by Daniele Radini Tedeschi, Rosa dei Venti Edition:

With the Avant-garde, the concept of the figure, but even the concept of Art, found its raison d'etre renewed, that is, the search for verisimilitude, so much so that the most successful modern currents have based their doctrine precisely on going against the Tradition. Ivana Castelliti instead seems to dwell nostalgically in Abstractionism, so much so that she adds a decoration to the informal. The glitter she uses to accentuate the splendor of the painted surface serves to fill the figurative absence, not to destroy it. The lyrical and elegiac flow of his abstraction is therefore more traditional than much current modernity. Many of his works whose subjects are inspired by organic forms appear poetic and suggestive in their delicacy.

Daniele Radini Tedeschi

The station studied and carried out by the Piedmontese artist tends to transform the absence of form into a symbol, thus creating a double peculiar value of the work. The use of brilliant material in free forms is an alchemical fusion of contemporaneity.