CENTAUROMACHIA Painting

Roberto Talignani graduated in scenography from the 'P. Toschi' Institute of Art in Parma, the city where he was born in 1945. He continued his studies at the Brera Academy in Milan during the set designer Pietro Varisco and at the painting school of maestro Domenico Cantatore. It was in Milan that he had stimulating contacts with artists and art critics such as Raffaele De Grada, Mario De Micheli, Guido Ballo and Carlo Carrà who marked important stages of his pictorial journey. It has been proposed to the public with personal and collective exhibitions in Milan, Parma, Mantua, Verona, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Vasto, Cagliari and in other national exhibitions. His artistic expression developed through research and experimentation always in a strictly figurative field. In his paintings little is granted to a "pictorial" brush stroke, preferring a precise, analytical brush stroke to build his figures. Today his works are the result of a continuous search for proportions, colors and aesthetic elements such as lines and plastic sense, the same that have always constituted the canons of "beauty" in art, from Praxiteles to Raphael, passing from Paolo Uccello to Benozzo Gozzoli and Donatello. The observation and study of the works of classical Greece, together with the works of the Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, led Roberto Talignani to want to repeat the lines, sometimes through the actual copy but with reworkings, fantastic reconstructions, ideal restorations and with the use of all the decorative elements identified in ancient monasteries, palaces and museums. The use of the image of the horse is not accidental. The revival of "beauty" in art as a moment of research, can be facilitated by that set of wonderful lines that a horse already has, by its nature, and if then these lines are those used by Donatello or Fidia, an extraordinary result is obtained .