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Lucio Battisti

(Poggio Bustone 1943 - Milano 1998)

DREAMING AND DREAMING AGAIN, 1971

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oil on canvas
72x83 cm
Oil on canvas, size 72x83 cm, created by Lucio Battisti, entitled DREAMING AND DREAMING AGAIN

This painting always hung in the room of Albarita, Lucio's sister. It was a painting Albarita was particularly fond of. Abstract art, with alternating light, dark, bright, and even softer colors, represents the multifaceted nature of the singer-songwriter's sister, a painting Albarita completely identified with.

Already exhibited in Rome in September 2011 at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, in the exhibition 'Battisti, il tratto delle emozioni' curated by Gianni Borgna and Carla Ronga, produced by the Fondazione Musica per Roma.

It is part of a series of original works by Battisti, who was certainly less known as a painter but which reveals his great skill and creative intuition for the world of figurative art, and is certainly a great find for collectors who love the singer-songwriter.

Framed, small patch on the canvas on the back, signed on the back LUCIO BATTISTI 6/71

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The exhibition 'Battisti, il tratto delle emozioni', curated by Gianni Borgna and Carla Ronga and produced by the Fondazione Musica per Roma, was held at the AuditoriumArte exhibition space in the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome. The exhibition displayed eleven paintings by Lucio Battisti between 1969 and 1972, as well as the first three guitars purchased by the singer-songwriter, who was still a minor, before leaving for Milan.

The canvases, which are titled after the songs performed or set to music by the artist, were conceived after hours spent tormenting the strings of his guitar, when sometimes Battisti, as his sister Albarita recounted, would lock himself in the kitchen and paint using makeshift means, creating his paintings. The themes of the works are intrinsic to some of the songs: they range from the overlapping and nuanced elements of "Sognando e Risognando" to the universality of "La Macchina del Tempo," with its bold, decisive colors and its large, violent numbers surrounding the carcass of an alarm clock.

And again, from the bright colors of the "Two Worlds," where one is the opposite of the other but also the interface of the other and therefore seeks out the other. Contrasting canvases, in the brush strokes and the emotions they convey, testify to the richness of his artistic existence, demonstrating how his imagination could translate the world and emotions into colors while his genius transformed everything around him into music. That music that has touched at least three generations, making us dream, fall in love, and cry. Among the guitars on display, the first one ever played by the singer-songwriter, decorated and autographed. "Battisti always sought to go beyond the trends of the moment and even beyond his own image, however successful, to open new paths," says Gianni Borgna, "to create new rhythmic and timbral solutions, constantly surprising his own admirers.

It therefore didn't surprise us too much to learn that he drew part of his inspiration from painting, in a personal osmosis of sound and image, through which many of his bold musical solutions were born first on the palette and then on the guitar. "The simplicity of the line," adds Anna Cestelli, "is the expression, and perhaps the inspiration, of the music of his later lyrics, aimed at capturing the poetic meaning of a reality perceived in its expressive core beyond the exteriority of appearances, through that process of 'inner resonance,' that is, the correspondence between external reality and internal soul. That inner experience that Kandinsky himself had spoken of in 'The Spiritual in Art,' as the sole and true prerogative of the artist who 'sets the human soul into vibration.'" (SOURCE Adnkronos)

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