Passage from melody to harmony therefore, harmonic possibilities.
A change of shape into others and from these into many more, thus a metamorphosis will result from the transformation and modification.
Support for all types of language is technique, in all of the arts, from the most to the least significant. I do not believe that there are greater or lesser arts. Every language is separate.
Man is like a suspended thread in every artistic expression.
Whoever sings a song of hope to God will see his vow fulfilled.
Empty and full areas chase each other on a surface, to create composed shadows and light in an equilibrium of spaces.
Technique and material must bow to the idea and thus the volumes depend on the leading line of the idea.
To make the material light. An opportunity to rise from the concrete.
The subject of a work is pretext for spaces, shadows, empty and full spaces, light and chiaroscuro, which are re-created, forming sensations that arouse emotions in the user but also in the artist.
Dance, movement, modelled turbines, rhythm on musical equilibrium. Dance breaks the space creating new symmetries with shapes that have shadows and light without pre- determined lay-outs.
The meaning comes before the shape
Like the bow of a ship that cleaves the water, so is my cry of passion, to implore and break this ungrateful, prodigal and hard time.
The idea is developed from a deep penetration of cultural fragments, something entering from outside, it elaborates, it transforms into a new shape, which has antique, contemporary and at the same time future identity, until it is itself idea material, body.
Imaging of the human body, a figure taken from an idea or from a sensation does not change the problem of art, which is to identify an image and to calm oneself in it.
Benvenuto Gattolin was born in Caverzere (VE) in 1942. He obtained his diploma at the “Istituto d’Arte Pietro Selvatico” in Padua: Master of Art in decorative painting, but also sculptor, ceramist, restorer, scenographer, glass artist.
He taught art for 10 years in a Middle School in Milan.
During his career he has realised many personal and collective painting and sculpture exhibitions.
Winner of many competitions, he has been commissioned to create commemorative medals, sculptured celebration monuments and restoration works.
He has also operated in more than 36 places of worship with church ornament interventions: altar pieces, bas-reliefs, tabernacles and ambones.
His works are present in private collections in Italy and throughout the world.
His art has been the subject to many critics with articles in competent national and international magazines and catalogues.
Benvenuto Gattolin lives and works in Assisi.
In my art studio I realise: commissioned, free or topical works, in wood, bronze and marble, in the dimensions requested, for private collections and indoor and outdoor furnishings. Public urban design works, ornaments for places of worship and private chapels. Study and realisation of stained glass. Art works restoration.