Antonio Veronese à Barbizon
Press articles about the painter Antonio Veronese
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Antonio Veronese est un artiste complet, en qui les préoccupations esthétiques se confondent avec qualités humanistes. Il se focalise essentiellement sur l´homme ou la condition humaine, dans sa souffrance la plus profonde : les fils d´Eve exilés dans notre vallée de larmes. Sa préférence pour les têtes dénote que c’est seulement au travers des têtes qu’ il peut apprivoiser l´horreur…l´horreur de la condition humaine. Dans le dialogue de Timée, Platon affirme : « La tête humaine est l'image du monde. (Francisco Brennand, peintre et sculpteur)
Antonio Veronese is a complete artiste, in whom aesthetic concerns merge with humanistic qualities. It focuses essentially on the human been or on the human condition, in its deepest suffering: the sons of Eve exiled in our valley of tears. His preference for the heads denotes that it is only through this heads that he can tame the horror … the horror of the human condition. In the dialogue of Timeous, Plato affirms: « The human head is the image of the world. (Francisco Brennand, painter and sculptor)
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«Some people are shocked by the brutality of Veronese’s images. But he is reacting to his contemporaneity and could not paint the same subjects as Monet! Times are different! Times of immense brutality and materialism and I think that Veronese’s painting is a reaction to that. An artist has to reflect his time, otherwise he is not a true artiste. And so few contemporary painters are dedicated to this. As André Gide rightly said: Art that is submitted to an orthodoxy, be it the healthiest of doctrines, is lost". Modesto Lanzone ( Museo Italo-Americano de San Francisco)–
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Antonio Veronese à Saint-Germain des Près
Globally renowned artist, activist and educator of minors prisoners, Antonio Veronese’s paintings connect with the soul, conveying pure, powerful emotion beyond words. Indeed in the eyes of history, Antonio Veronese is a true, rare Master. His imagery is saturated with feeling – each glimpse and viewing rekindles within our souls recognition of and affinity to someone – and sometimes more than one – who is or has been present and meaningful in our lives. Antonio Veronese’s art is dizzying and rich with feeling. To me his paintings and photographs fly free from the soul, always giving honor and love to your subjects. Thank you, Veronese, for warming my heart. As Rilke: “The inner- what is it if not intensified sky, hurled through with birds and deep with the winds of homecoming ”. Thank you, I am humbled. - (Master photographer Robert Zuckerman)
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I often hear that Veronese’s faces evoke child prisoners in Brazil. But this is a reductive idea! It is true that her closeness for years with these distressed children has strongly marked her painting, but what it releases is deeper and more complex. In reality, it is our perplexity painted by Veronese, our helplessness in the face of life and the world today. That’s why he’s beyond fashion, that’s why it’s a classic. It was lacking in our time, poisoned by galloping abstractionism and the nihilism of conceptual art, someone who draws the face of contemporaneity. That’s exactly what Veronese is doing. (Modesto Lanzone- director of Museo Italo-American of Fort Mason, San Francisco, USA)
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ANTONIO VERONESE AU CARROUSEL DU LOUVRE- Entrevista à Mideart-Paris
Veja entrevista de Veronese no vernissage da exposição au Carrousel du Louvre, à Paris: http://mideartparis.unblog.fr/antonio-veronese-entrevista-no-carrousel-du-louvre-paris/
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Antonio Veronese à Barbizon
Tout au long du 19e siècle, Barbizon a accueilli de nombreux artistes qui on trouvé dans la paix de sa nature une source d’inspiration nouvelle- le silence des paysages, la ramure des arbres, l’atmosphère de la lisière, bien loin des conventions picturales d’alors. Jean-Baptiste Corot, grand voyager, ou encore Honoré Daumier, feront halte à Barbizon, qui avec Théodore Rousseau fera plus tard école) une Ecole qui comptait, comme souvent avec les artistes, beaucoup de maîtres et pas de professeurs.
Puis Jean-François Millet introduit dans ses toiles les paysans et leurs troupeaux, et le réalisme en peinture succède au paysagisme sans personnages des précurseurs. Parleur refus de tout académisme, les oeuvres des uns et des autres préfiguraient l’impressionnisme qui prendra naissance à la fin du siècle.Despuis lors, Barbizon n’a jamais perdu son rôle de carrefour de l’art et des artistes.
Parmi ceux qui y vivent aujourd’hui, AntonioVeronese se signale par une oeuvre originale. Peintre brésilien d’origine italienne, il a exposé un peu partout dans le monde avant de s ‘établir à Barbizon en 2004. Aussi éloigné de l’académisme que ses lointains prédécesseurs, Veronese se concentre sur l’homme- peut-être parce qu’il est le grand oublié de notre époque- surtout à travers ses visages. « Votre âme est un paysage choisi », écrivait Verlaine. Veronese reprend à son compte le vers fameux, et poursuit en contrepoint la recherche de tous ceux qui l’on précédé. Jean Sarzana, écrivant et poète, Éditions Gallimard
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« Painting marked by sensitiveness and delicacy. Something personal, a touch of spontaneity of the faces. Unique and also caught in the process wanted by the artist of repetition. One for all and all together» Sophie Attar – Le Figaro -(Cahier Culture).
« Des tableaux marqués par la souplesse et la sensibilité. Quelque chose de personnel, une touche de spontanéité des visages. Uniques et pris aussi dans les processus voulu par l’artiste de la répétition. Un pour tous et tous ensemble…» Sophie Attar – Le Figaro- (cahier Culture).
« Telas marcadas pela delicadeza e sensibilidade. Algo de pessoal, com um toque de espontaneidade dos rostos. Únicos, ainda que dentro do processo de repetição buscado pelo artista . Um para todos e todos juntos… » Sophie Attar – O Figaro (Caderno Cultura).
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Antonio Veronese, an internationally renowned Italian-Brazilian artist who has his works exhibited in numerous museums, public and private collections around the world. He is the author of « Famine »for FAO (Food Agricultural Organisation for United Nations) at Rome; « Save the Children », symbol of 50th Anniversary of the United Nations; « Just Kids », symbol of UNICEF; « Outsiders »at the University of Geneva, Switzerland; » La Marche », in the Brazilian Parliament since 1995 … For his work denouncing violence against poor and black boys in Brazil, he was invited to the Commission of Human Rights at United Nations in Geneva, and he received from the Supreme Court of Justice of Brazil the mention « Honoris Causa », indicated by the ILANUD (Latin American Institute of the United Nations for Latin America). Risoleta Córdula, Cultural Affairs – Embassy of Brazil in Paris
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