Nispa'

Biografia

E’ nato a Barletta, il 20 settembre del ’55.Vive e lavora a Bari.

Autodidatta. Le prime opere (’72) hanno per soggetto paesaggi e figure, già con un predominio dei contrasti e delle luci sui tratti. Non ama disegnare. Preferisce esprimersi con i colori accesi o tenui o con passaggi impercettibili.

Dal ’92 si dedica alle opere astratte che liberano i suoi colori acrilici, i preferiti, anche perché gli consentono di completare rapidamente l’opera. La fusione dei colori, i contrasti ed i composti che ne risultano esprimono dei concetti che pur provenendo dall’astrattismo inteso come distanza dalla realtà hanno tracce di figurato reale.

Sembra il passaggio alle opere che presenta dal ’94. L’astrattismo fa posto alle figure di rami e foglie di vario tipo, avvolti da colori o da polveri magiche che evocano atmosfere originali ed antiche ( …le letterine di Natale che si mettevano sotto il piatto dei Genitori ).

L’artista sembra finalmente libero di tradurre in immagini e suoni colorati l’inesprimibile.

Sempre preso dall’apprendere e dallo sperimentare si definisce un appassionato che desidera divertirsi e incuriosire giocando con i colori. Non ha modelli. Preferisce Dalì, Kandiskij e De Chirico.

Con numerose mostre personali e collettive ha raccolto consensi.

BIOGRAPHY

NISPA’ (Alfredo Pansini Dionisio) was born in Barletta (Province of Bari, Italy) on September 20 1955. He lives and works in Bari.

Self-taught, his first works (1972) portray landscapes and figures whose contours already reveal a characteristic predominance of contrast and highlight. Rather than draw, his elected form of expression is bright or subtle colour, or imperceptible transition.

From 1992 he dedicated himself to abstract works that break into being through the acrylic paints favoured by the artist, not least because they afford him swift execution and completion. The resulting fusion, contrast and composite formulation of colour may originate in abstractism - in the sense of distance from the real - yet they preserve traces of the purely figurative.

These works seem to herald a passage to those produced from 1994 on. Abstractionism gives way to figurative representation of branches and leaves of various kinds, wrapped in colour or enshrouded in a magical dust that evokes original and time-lost atmospheres (... the greeting messages once traditionally placed by sons and daughters under their parents’ plates at Christmas dinner).

The artist finally seems free to translate the inexpressible into images and coloured sounds.

Continuously absorbed in learning and experimenting, he describes himself as an enthusiast eager to enjoy himself and incite curiosity by playing with colour. He has no models, but prefers Dali, Kandinskij and De Chirico.

Numerous personal and collective exhibitions have earned him critical acclaim.

Written comment on the painter:

Delicacy of tone, fusion of mixtures, balance of composition and poetic symphony all enhance his works.
(Maria Picardi Goliac, painter)

Works of brilliant painting – expressive, artistically perfect and thoroughly delightful.
(Archbishop Mons. Giuseppe Carata)

From his painting emerges a transcendental vision of reality born of inner peace nurtured on Christian values.
The combination of colour, dimension and motion of the image convey an understanding of its very language and the message it contains.
(Osservatore Romano)

Ideas and experience in execution, creativity and thinking