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Giovanni Cavazzon |
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DOMENICO DE STEFANO from
Cavazzon: art as a form of life Giovanni Cavazzon has been around
the world of art for almost thirty years. He is known most of all for his
portraits of well-known figures, works which are born from the need to
establish a more intimate relation with mankind. Cavazzon’s full technical mastery
always comes forth in his works: soft luministic effects, delicate
transparencies through a masterful and delicate game of glazing, with
acrylics, pencil, ink and with thin layers of highly diluted linen oil. His activity as a scenographer in
younger years, which has deeply influenced his painting and drawing, lies at
the base of this study. This manifests itself in the rigorous attention he
places on luminous phenomena, to light’s evanescence or solarity in order to
create figures which are not mere copies of the original (Cavazzon is an
artist). The classical eurytmics in
Cavazzon’s marvelous Bacchantes (Baccanti)
allow us a close-up view where we can grasp and understand in full the
originality of his work: three figures are shrouded in an artificial and
bewitching light with precious tones of red, orange and pink and immersed in
an unreal setting as their ethereal beauty fades away. More generally,
however, the subjects he prefers to portray are female figures (even nudes)
with whom we establish a sort of intense visual dialogue so as to project our
desires upon them. A woman accepts to be portrayed in
her more intimate light; is a symbol of the life and love that lie within
her. Cavazzon searches for the most hidden sides in her eyes, which are
tender and sensual at the same time. Cavazzon the portraitist places
himself in direct contact with life’s experiences and this comes out also in
his male figures. Each of his characters reveals a past story with his own
experiences. Here we find the soul of Cavazzon, who has never lived the
present thinking about what was to come. He lives today turning to the past
to better understand himself and to be able to look beyond with a renewed
sense of faith. He sees art as a way of life par excellence. Sketching has always been the base
for his paintings (his sketches which dwell on some of the main themes of his
art are indeed beautiful), even during his experience, which he likes to
define as “informal”, during the late seventies. Cavazzon’s most recent works
have focused on acrylic compositions, with oil and also ink, made on wooden
boards or on paper where the intense and vibrant colours have a luminosity
typically found in his acrylic painting. The wish for immediacy and the
desire for freedom, that sincere, vital and energetic contact with his brush,
his spatula, his colours and stand have guided Cavazzon in his works to develop
a faster and more immediate stroke, to create stimulating chromatic rhythms
of contrapunto, so vital in their richness of precious, soft and
ever-changing tonalisms, lighting up and turning off, and changeable in their
chromatic hues. The artist deeply identifies with his work, so much so he is
almost in a state of trance while painting or sketching, thus striking a true
art and life binomial, forgetting all that surrounds him. However, in the
end, his vitality is almost entirely dominated by his technical mastery. In
his creations, Cavazzon has always elicited great interest both artistically
and for his expressive force. In his most recent paintings (Fence / Recinto, Wall / Muro, Window /
Finestra, Nostalgia / Nostalgia, The Pumpkin / La zucca, Gate / Cancello) he has reached
effects of greater formal synthesis and touched moments of high poetic
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