What critics have said
about him..
Reality tends to dissolve
in color, rather in various colors, which do not overlap and mix, but
stand side by side respecting the subject's identification lines ...
Paolo Vannini learned
painting brings together the great cubist experience, although
mediated by the elegant sign of a Matisse (especially in the figures)
or that of the dreamy and unreal of Paul Klee (in some landscapes).
He also draws upon the lesson of some Italians like Sironi, though he
re-experieced through the color expertise of the "Fauves".
Indeed, in Vannini's painting the taste for color is the predominant
element so much that it becomes almost a living thing. His painting
is not just a mere reinterpretation of great artistic movements of
the twentieth century, but a personal pictorial activity that leads
him to reconcile different experiences. They have been perfectly
assimilated and therefore are not bounded but they have become a
solid base for future progress searching for a reality that is only
apparently decomposed. Indeed, in the end, everything contributes to
create a much more lively and throbbing reality so much so that one
cannot speak of abstractionism his art, as he always maintains a
direct relationship with reality itself. The result is a deep
psychological work; as if the painter, investigating the subject more
and more deeply, wanted to find its ultimate essence, rational
location and reason to exist in space and in reality. This is
achieved by seeking a compositional and coloristic balance that
appeases and satisfies the gaze, but also the inner anxiety that
drives him to paint.
Dott. Andrea Bolognesi
After thirty years of
artistic and cultural activity, Paolo Vannini's active research puts
him in the condition of expressing a pictorial sensation in terms of
clear originality in his latest works. The neo cubist experiences
lived in highly spiritual terms, thought a painting full of values
coming from the expression "Estrarte", symbolize his
images, lyrical interpretations, with the chromatology of the
palette. The artist obtains a great luminous intensity which is then
a strong support of the work itself
Marcello Meucci (Painter)
these painting are oil on
canvas, on plywood or grains,made with watercolor, ink or by
spreading the color directly on the canvas from the tube. The color
is sometimes soft and light, other times brighter and warmer, but it
is always capable of imparting strength and energy thanks to the
contrasting combinations of blue and pink, black and yellow or red
and green ....it is therefore spread with vigorous touches that often
leave full-bodied and consistent lumps on the canvas; a color taken
from a palette that is overloaded and that testifies a fervent and
incessant activity.
Donatella Nesti (Journalist)
There is nothing obvious
and banal in Vannini's creations, indeed there is meditation and
continuous research through the use of sign and color
(From "Metropoli")
In these works one can
notice and appreciate a skilful spatula work and a chromatic harmony
that is not born by chance, but it is deliberately inserted in
artistic way that infuses an atmosphere of realism that distinguishes
his works ...
Giuseppe Medaglini
Paolo Vannini is a painter
who fiercely lives in his time. Vannini meditates and researches with
sign and color. It is his way of trying to get out of an envelope
where good and evil are no longer understood. We all live in a spider
web that offends us and from which we cannot free ourselves. It is
the time of man in the labyrinth. In front of Paolo Vannini's
drawings and canvases, one must stop, study and find ways to enter
the signs and discover the arcane, everyone sees the contents, the
subjects in different forms ...
Roberto Spadoni (Journalist)
... This painting defines
a superficial and continuous rarefaction with the presence of its
environments and its daily objects . It is however a portrait of
virtual people in a traffic of obsessive relationships, of orders
without respite, an imaginary tale of business, of unclean,
devastating events that describe in color and in the sign, a chaotic
traffic of intrigues, pauses .. .
Armando Franceschini (Art Critic)