알레산드로 토파넬리(Alessandro Tofanelli), 이탈리아, 화가, 1959-현재

알레산드로 토파넬리(Alessandro Tofanelli), 이탈리아, 화가, 1959-현재

알레산드로 토파넬리(Alessandro Tofanelli), 이탈리아, 화가, 1959-현재

알레산드로 토파넬리(Alessandro Tofanelli), 이탈리아, 화가, 1959-현재

알레산드로 토파넬리(Alessandro Tofanelli), 이탈리아, 화가, 1959-현재

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알레산드로 토파넬리(Alessandro Tofanelli), 이탈리아, 화가, 1959-현재

알레산드로 토파넬리(Alessandro Tofanelli), 이탈리아, 화가, 1959-현재

알레산드로 토파넬리(Alessandro Tofanelli), 이탈리아, 화가, 1959-현재

알레산드로 토파넬리(Alessandro Tofanelli), 이탈리아, 화가, 1959-현재

알레산드로 토파넬리(Alessandro Tofanelli), 이탈리아, 화가, 1959-현재

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알레산드로 토파넬리(Alessandro Tofanelli), 이탈리아, 화가, 1959-현재

 

알레산드로 토파넬리(Alessandro Tofanelli), 이탈리아, 화가, 1959-현재

화가이자 사진작가, 다큐멘터리 감독인 Alessandro Tofanelli는 기억과 시간을 탐구하는 형이상학적인 풍경을 그린다.

 

1970년대 후반부터 그는 일러스트레이터로 일했다. 그림에서 Tofanelli는 완벽한 고요함의 순간을 보여준다. 토스카나 지역의 추억과 자신이 상상한 풍경을 혼합하여 자연 속에 자리 잡은 인공 건축물을 묘사하는 조용하고 시적인 장면을 창조한다.

 

그림 중 다수는 주변 풍경을 반영하는 잔잔한 바다로 둘러싸인 작은 섬을 묘사하는데, 보통 건물 한 두 개만 들어갈 수 있는 크기의 섬들이다. 자신의 그림에 대해 이야기할 때 시간과 기억의 관계를 조사하고 싶다고 말하며, 이를 제대로 수행하기 위해 자신이 가장 좋아하는 주제인 풍경을 선택했다고 말했다. 그에게 풍경은 시간의 흐름을 관조하고 잊고 싶지 않은 장소, 상황, 사람에 대한 기억을 소중히 간직할 수 있는 특권적인 관찰 지점인 셈이다.

 

                                                                                                      About Him

 

In 1975 Alessandro Tofanelli was awarded first prize among young painters for “The Resistance” (the painting is on display in the Gallery of Modern Art of Lucca), and also won the prize in the “Ina-Touring Competition” at the Palace Chokes in Florence where he was recognised as the most promising young Italian artist. Tofanelli graduated from the Arts’ Institute in Lucca and later moved to Milan, where he attended the Brera Art Academy. Whilst in Milan, Tofanelli collaborated as an illustrator for several magazines by the famous Italian publishers Rizzoli and Mondadori. His talent was later confirmed by other awards: the Giotto gold medal in 1984, Under 35 of Bologna in 1987, Prize Wave Verde of Florence, and Prize Mediterranean Ibla.

 

Alessandro Tofanelli is a modern day master of old-age techniques. He captures the instantaneousness of a forgotten memory: isolated, silent, free. His paintings are not merely to be seen but also to be listened to: the silence of stillness, slowly built up by colour, of what is so loved as to be unapproachable, sacred and not of this world. His poetry with the brush finds its place and is drawn into a rigorous balance of form and imagination.

 

When asked about his painting, Tofanelli states that he wants to investigate the relationship between time and memory, and to properly do this he has chosen landscape as his subject. Landscape, to him, is a privileged point of observation to contemplate the flow of time as well as to place memories of forgotten places and people whom he wishes to remember. Although he paints landscapes, Tofanelli is no conventional genre painter. The perspectives are tenderly distorted, so that depictions of grass and trees and horizons become subtle evocations of memory and passing time.

 

Tofanelli is a romantic who takes his time. His brush strokes accentuate each blade of grass, each branch of a tree, each flower in a meadow in way that is a soft and mottled. It is as if he caressing the nature he loves with complete tenderness. This quality is revealed in a multitude of ways, where he sees beauty in the simple, elegance of nature. His paintings inspire a feeling of tranquility and we can only observe, with discretion, the details and "listen to" that spontaneous and slowly uncontainable creative force which characterises each detail of his paintings.

 

Tofanelli has exhibited his work in a number of prestigious galleries throughout Italy and abroad and has always combined his painting with his work as a professional photographer and a television video-documentarist. He has made numerous videos aired on the Italian network RAI (especially for scientific naturalistic programs like Green Wave, Geo etc.). He was honoured at the San Francisco film festival in 2005 for his award winning film, Unnatural (Contronatura). Directed by Alessandro Tofanelli this stunning black-and-white film contrasts the existential differences between rural woodcutter Giacomo (Andrea di Stefano, Before Night Falls) and local pharmacist's wife Francesca (Valeria Cavalli, Everybody's Fine) in this romantic drama.

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호리우치 타츠오 (Horiuchi Tatsuo, 堀内辰男), 일본, 엑셀아트, 1940~현재

 

제임스 쿡(James Cook), 영국, 작가, 타자기 그림, 현재

 

캐릭터 화투 (feat. 명절놀이 화투 고스톱)