Claudio Malacarne

Critical notes

Francesco Gallo
2003
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It is the triumph of painting over nature and, at the same time, the triumph of painting over itself, by demonstrating that something new can still be said, after that a lot has already been said.This is the worth of Malacarne: he does not introduce himself into the circle of repetition, of “déjà vu”, “taken for granted”, but he possesses the ability to surprise the eye and the vision, focusing on things, details passing unnoticed to passers-by or careless people. These details spur the attention of the painter who is, then, ready to reveal the invisible, to show the miracle of simplicity.
Enrico Longfils
(La gazzetta di Mantova, 1993)
To see a Claudio Malacarne's painting means to feel a great joy and a deep emotion. Joy for the wonderful note of colour, and emotion because hit art is the best symbolic post impressionism of our times ... a very refined taste searching for chances to create real painting, fine painting.
W. Gorni
(La gazzetta di Mantova, 1986)
A pictorial rhithm which follows on for obtaining unexpected images ... a refined painting, relaxing and full of poetry.
R. Protti Tosi
(La cittadella, 1988)
Shadows don't exist for Malacarne. The light exists. With its secrets which can be shattered in myriads of combinations ... Indeed, it doesn't always happen, to leave an exhibition with the heart full of harmonies.
A. Maravelli
(La gazzetta di Mantova, 1989)
Malacarne explodes in the whole luminous for colour which doesn't exclude, on the contrary it implies a wise, experienced pertaining to pointillisme technique.
A. Cagiano
(Il Resto del Carlino, 1989)
...he shows the strong figurative, with the exploding and sharp chromatism based on a powerful impressionistic tecnhnique.
G. Trevisan
(L'Arena, 1991)
...he paints nature and men with a quite personal skilled mark and chromatic liveliness.
T. Cordani
(Mondo Padano, 1992)
And the white, with its bright light, illumines everything and, insinuating itself among the large stains of the brush, exalts the gesture of the action and the acquisition, by now reached, of the visible culture linked to Matisse, Festa, Schifano.
W. Gorni
(La Gazzetta di Mantova, 1994)
The palette is rich, without limits. The beginning portrait is fresh, original, but faithful to reality.
A. Inciso
(La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, 1999)
When you look at this mantuan artist's works you feel you're ravished, positively or negatively involved. You're dragged in a whirl of feelings and memories.
I. De Meo
(La Nuova Basilicata, 1999)
His paintings ... are appreciated for their fast rhythm, for the large and refined strokes of the brush, for a touch of mastery in the retouching with the spatule, but, first of all, for the lively drawing up of colours ... The radiant tonality ... are protagonists of MAlacarne's art. He is appreciated and in demand not only in national scale, but for the growing japanese market too.