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For years I tried to freeze in pictures moments and places. Everything can enter pictures, images but also your thoughts and desires. These were moments in which I dedicated more time and more space for painting, to represent a sign or an idea on a grand scale, to allow myself to expand it on the page or on the canvas, and to live within the colour for a day.

In the sketches the technique used employs almost exclusively watercolors and the representation is almost exclusively figurative. The paintings tend towards abstraction, with different techniques in time, linked to an evolution taking place in my mode of perception.

The discovery of Chinese culture had a notable influence on me; its search for the just and perfect that is in us. To represent the succession and repetition of days with small and big mutations. In this succession of days there is something obsessive represented by a repeated sign. Repeated but always different, because the context in which we place the monotonous day is different, and because we, as individuals, are different, In the repetition of a movement, seemingly always the same, a small contribution to knowledge on on the road towards perfection is added every time.

My work takes place between Rome, where I live, and Tuscany.

Giovanni Crescimanni