Agostino Arrivabene, a very talented Italian painter, is a painter of decadence, dream and ancient symbologies who uses his own homemade pigments and colors and tries to revive ancient pictorial techniques. Arrivabene was born in Rivolta d’Adda, in the province of Cremona, Italy in 1967.
He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in 1991. He then traveled to various Italian and international cities seeking out the work of the Old Masters, deepening his knowledge of his craft, and bringing to bear a great influence upon the future development of his own artwork.
The art of Agostino Arrivabene is cultured, seductive, imbued with symbols, inspired both by classical mythology and by the Masters of the XV-XVI century (Leonardo, Dürer, Bosch) and in the more recent past by Moreau, Redon, Ernst. Who looks, observes, Arrivabene’s works, flooded by the vortex of veiled messages, participates (perhaps unconsciously) in an initiatory journey that leads to the revelation of a knowledge of which the artist is the generator and dispenser.
A modern alchemist, capable of bringing to life mystical experiences that go beyond the cognitive limits of the spectator, the conscious and the unconscious, a continuous exploration of our “intimate universe” among arches of lives already lived or longed for.
The exhibition itinerary designed for the Diocesan Museum of Massa will allow you to explore the composite variety of expressions that constitutes Arrivabene’s artistic research in a “dialogue” not of challenge but of “comparison”, of “exchange”, with the works of the great masters present in the Diocesan Museum, just to name a few: Iacopo Della Quercia, Bernardino Luini, Felice Palma, Francesco Marti, Domenico Fisella.
It would be wrong, however, to think of a universe of reference solely in the past. Arrivabene’s art does not come out of nowhere in our beginning of the century, its art di lui presents itself as an extreme resistance of the figurative art that is not dead, it lives and Agostino Arrivabene is the testimony of it. with the works of the great masters present in the Diocesan Museum, just to name a few: Iacopo Della Quercia, Bernardino Luini, Felice Palma, Francesco Marti, Domenico Fisella.
It would be wrong, however, to think of a universe of reference solely in the past. Arrivabene’s art does not come out of nowhere in our beginning of the century, its art di lui presents itself as an extreme resistance of the figurative art that is not dead, it lives and Agostino Arrivabene is the testimony of it. with the works of the great masters present in the Diocesan Museum, just to name a few: Iacopo Della Quercia, Bernardino Luini, Felice Palma, Francesco Marti, Domenico Fisella.
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It would be wrong, however, to think of a universe of reference solely in the past. Arrivabene’s art does not come out of nowhere in our beginning of the century, its art di lui presents itself as an extreme resistance of the figurative art that is not dead, it lives and Agostino Arrivabene is the proof of this.