OPENING: 15 January 2004 6 p.m.

From 15 January to 28 February 2004

Biasutti & Biasutti Gallery presents an exhibition dedicated to Piero Ruggeri (Turin 1930-2009). A selected collection of thirty paintings, from the 1950s to the end of the 1990s. A rigorous itinerary of creative research that opens with "Man in the landscape" (1959) proceeding with various references to a more international painting, as in "Rosso e figure" large panel that alludes to De Kooning or the nebulous tangles of action painting by Pollock in “Lavender Mist” (1950). The pure tones are flanked by the softness of the oils, the clumps and streaks and the appearance of color: writing and coating, as in "Cretese" (1987) and "Night at the pond of Laijün" (1996-97). The protagonist is one of his brambles, an unconventional reinterpretation of the theme of the landscape, with “Lo steccato” (1973). His abstract-informal paintings are the testimony of a poetic and vital reinterpretation of reality, of an experience that is the result of a continuous commitment, capable of establishing a precise relationship between the artist and the environment.