The Art of Harmony
Maria Elisa Bruson
White sand still fragrant with the acrid aroma of the sea; hot spices that, as tiny essence drops, are spread on the canvas; sprigs fixed in bloom forever: these are among the materials that Barbara Pareti uses to compose her "Chromomaterical" works.
Barbara Pareti’s pictures strike all the senses, harmony being the artist’s guiding thread. Her aptitude for listening, observing, touching and feeling the energy of nature allows her to transpose onto the canvas the colours, scents and sensations that float all around us. The observer feels captured by the pictures’ energetic whirl and tends to get closer, in order to touch or smell or taste once again that unique sensation created by a stream of memories.
Just as the sweet smell of Proust’s madeline allowed the author to live on some remote instants, similarly, Pareti’s work takes us to inward places of extreme delicacy and sensitivity that are waiting only to come to light again.
The earthy colours and the most delicate materials alternate, in lines and harmonious curves to unite grace with power in an indissoluble bond. Works destined to last in time, intended as a means to experiment with the fleeting, illuminating moments and get lost in them.
The artist’s way of living flows into her pictures. An attentive researcher of the energies and atmospheres emanating from objects and materials, she’s been able to deepen her spontaneous sensibility thanks to the bend for art her family shares–her father is a glassworks maker. Pareti now lives in Biella, one of the most fervent and innovative cultural environments in Italy. This little town generated artists such as Michelangelo Pistoletto, who, thanks to his glass and mirror works, represented one of the greatest protagonists in the art’s international scene. In Biella the Crackin’ Art group of artists operates as well, a reference point for innovative and striking art that the New York public knows, as well. The dynamic artistic clime that permeates this small town at the foot of the Alps, is excellently represented by Barbara Pareti who, as a talented artist, proposes a feminine work of intense but delicate tones that transcend mere vision.
