About Gianni Visentin

Gianni Visentin

Venetian artist born in 1938, a first pictorial culture, then sculptural, refined with a never tame professional experience, manages to impose, in each of his works, a sound of the human being, something that comes from deep inside and is inimitable. He always turns on a light. Between the mid-60s and the end of the 70s, he stayed in France, coming into contact with the most avant-garde cultural circles and artistic circles of that country. However, it was during the Parisian period that the latent passion for sculpture began to make itself felt overwhelmingly to the point of taking over painting. If the interest at a technical level had changed direction, the thematic strand of his works had not changed: the themes treated remained those of environmental protection combined with those of the recovery of human values ?? and his history. Love, good and evil, modern restlessness, metaphysical reflection, peace fought and solidarity sought, freedom and reconciliation are the infinite reservoirs, the background of his being, where he draws creativity and new stories. , beyond the barbarism of the surface, to investigate in the depths of each one, in the dimension of humanity. Visentin’s works possess a seductive expressive charge due to their formal purity and the sense of dematerialization that pervades and spiritualizes them. The sculptor’s research on materials was noteworthy, which led him to experiment, in addition to traditional clay and bronze, with new compositions based on precious metals and various oxides. He founded in 1997 the artistic movement Arte Positiva (>> view the dedicated page) which he found in the Studio-Museum of Carpanè (Vi) where the artist’s major works are exhibited, his ideal home. Gianni Visentin is a member of the Minerva Academy of Geneva and of the Academy of Letters, Sciences, and Arts in Rome. His works are exhibited in the main museums of the world and have been delivered to illustrious personalities including John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Michail Gorbachev.