Gabriele Casale

My main medium is painting. I began studying painting by tackling the basics first and such rigorous path, then, proved crucial to the development of my job. As I went along, I increasingly understood what elements of painting interest me the most...

My main medium is painting. I began studying painting by tackling the basics first and such rigorous path, then, proved crucial to the development of my job. As I went along, I increasingly understood what elements of painting interest me the most. The line, the sign, the colour, the rhythm and the movement have become the protagonists of my work. My work has gradually changed as I moved from figurative art to fully abstract painting. The different painting techniques, which I have been using from time to time, have led, by virtue of their intrinsic language, to the creation of an assortment of works, which are, nonetheless, linked by the same research. My works, also the most blatantly abstract ones, always evoke the natural world. As Klee would say, my work is “abstract with some recollection”; this statement would always struck me until I embraced it fully. I am interested in nature because we should feel as one with it. I do not think that nature is only benign in itself but I believe that we should re-establish an intimate relationship with it. It surprises us, its mystery astonishes us, it even hits us hard but it stays an essential “fact” for every living being. With my work, I try to express the bond that has always existed between the man and the world outside himself.