ALBERTO VECA

From the drawing to the work

The comments on the different sections of this site are principally those of a friend.
And in that capacity he can take the liberty of indulging in confidences, omissions and reflections in tune with the artist and his work.
For this writer has been lucky enough to follow his developments along a fair stretch of the way.
He may therefore be treated as a discreet voice in the background and even one to be omitted, to make way for a succession of images certainly more attractive than these words.

The works presented in this edition, on canvas, paper, finished or rough and in the form of sketches, are thus the fruit of a strict selection.
They are guided by a desire to stress the continuity of work done for the most part within the sphere of "abstract art".
For Rizzato's earliest works are situated chronologically within a drastic conflict of linguistic choices seemingly far apart between "figurative" and "non".
There can however be discovered, in the ribbings of a flower or in the architecture of a building, a number of meaningful affinities.
In the evolution of an expressive path, the language adopted is necessarily sharpened to achieve reductions and syntheses.
But the underlying idea is the same.

The subjects documented here, with a clearly approximate interpretative distribution of the different seasons of his oeuvre, concern works dating from the 1950s to the present. This considerable stretch of time is forced into a logical/temporal succession which is more a logical resource for interpretation than an actual illustration of the works done in the artist's studio. Naturally, it consists of attempts, steps forward, and neglected options regained.

Indeed every statement is necessarily linear, each with a beginning and an end. The aim of this survey is to suggest that the path followed is only apparently, or of necessity, one only; and that it is in any case the fruit of decisions which may perhaps not be striking but nevertheless constitute its wealth. The emphasis in the title on "From the drawing to the work", a survey complementary to that of the chronological succession of works, is an invitation to break their consequentiality and to construct a personal angle of appreciation.