Retouches by Angelo Gilardino

Patience is not enough. Indeed, in patience one can get lost. Gastone Cecconello's works - the polymaths, the sculptures, the large paintings - infinite thoughts suggest, minus what the author has spent patience on: energy, imagination, bravur a, controlled fury, yes, but not patience, in fact everything he did seems candied by a thunderbolt, burned in the time of a short fuse. These drawings ,

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To the origins of the myth

In 1999 I asked a question to Tullio Regge, who covered Einstein's chair at Princeton for 15 years, about the misunderstanding of the universe, and he replied that man is a finite entity and lives in an infinite cosmos. Gastone Cecconello   Gastone Cecconello. At the origins of the myth    

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The Questions of Gastone Cecconello by Renzo Margonari

Gastone Cecconello's Questions. by Renzo Margonari in Style Art no. 76, March 2004   Gastone Cecconello founded his artistic career in the 1960s. Until 1990 he could consider himself a painter assimilated into the ranks of those "abstract naturalists" dear especially to Francesco Arcangeli, and whose aesthetic expressions were included in an arc of experience, between figuration and informal, ranging from Ennio Borlotti to Pietro

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Margonari cassettes

Renzo Margonari, 2004 Gastone Cecconello's most intriguing works seem to be those of the "Cassette" cycle, beginning in 1995, whose meaning was announced by earlier works but becomes more explicitly expressed. Each of these boxes, which open like cases, contains a palette at the top and a face mask at the bottom. Each is differently treated chromatically and materially with refined painterly taste. For every

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Eos Gallery exhibition catalog

Angelo Gilardino Eos Gallery exhibition catalog 1995   The work of an artist of such generous inspiration, overflowing energy and felicitous hand as Gastone Cecconello offers no possibility of convenient subdivisions into periods or sections. A native of Vercelli born in 1942, he began painting at a very early age and, after training at the local Institute of Fine Arts (the forge of all the

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