Luigi Ballarin Italian
Works
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Luigi BallarinButterfly II, 2024Enamels and acrylic on Fabriano paper45 x 32 cm.
17.73 x 12.6 in. -
Luigi BallarinButterfly III, 2024Enamels and acrylic on Fabriano paper45 x 32 cm.
17.73 x 12.6 in. -
Luigi BallarinButterfly V, 2024Enamels and acrylic on Fabriano paper45 x 32 cm.
17.73 x 12.6 in. -
Luigi BallarinButterfly VIII, 2024Enamels and acrylic on Fabriano paper45 x 32 cm.
17.73 x 12.6 in. -
Luigi BallarinCavallo Bizantino II, 2024Acrylic and enamel on canvas30 x 30 cm.
11.81 x 11.81 in. -
Luigi BallarinCavallo Bizantino I, 2023Acrylic and enamel on canvas30 x 30 cm.
11.81 x 11.81 in. -
Luigi BallarinRosone ottomano I, 2023Acrylic and enamel on canvas30 x 30 cm.
11.81 x 11.81 in. -
Luigi BallarinRosone ottomano II, 2023Acrylic and enamel on canvas30 x 30 cm.
11.81 x 11.81 in. -
Luigi BallarinDark BlueEnamels and acrylic on canvas60 x 60 cm
23.62 x 23.62 in
Biography
Luigi Ballarin began his artistic career in the 1990s in Venice; in 2000 he moved to Rome and, after an invitation for a solo exhibition, he fell in love with Istanbul in 2013.
He currently lives and works in the three cities, creating a union between different cultures with a unique and original language, thanks to his ability to weave together different artistic traditions, highlighting points of contact and communication.
Cultural exchange is inherent to the soul of his homeland, Venice, which over the centuries has welcomed languages, customs, stories, and works of art from different worlds.
Luigi Ballarin's art is a union between East and West and synthesises in iconic images the suggestions of the minor arts, which travelled the paths of trade and wayfarers, and fused different traditions: the decorations of majolica, the enamel of goldsmiths, the embroidery of precious fabrics.
His figures follow the two-dimensional rhythms of Byzantine painting and are decorated with an original technique, characterised by material backgrounds in relief, evoking mosaics, enamels, ceramic decorations and carpets.
The colour and acrylic enamel are enriched with metallic effects that give the works great luminosity, narrating memories and recollections, emotions and stories, symbols and spirituality.
Other paintings narrate the Middle East, with a painting that becomes a kind of silent reflection, with images created by small touches of the brush, which punctuate almost abstract depictions.
Luigi Ballarin, with his symbolic and timeless art, testifies to the possibility that the union of different cultures and traditions can merge into a poetry of peace.
Alessandra Cusinato