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Moreno Panozzo was born in 1963.
When he was a young boy, he stood out for his remarkable gifts and natural sensitivity and passion towards art in general, and ‘in primis’ for the world of painting and drawing.
We do not know when he started his artistic activity because, since young, he tried any type of material: from iron to wood, from clay to paste.
He achieved the present expressive forms starting from studying, from the experience gained in the architecture field, and more from the love for the design thanks to which he was appreciated by the world of entrepreneurs, which he deals with everyday.
During his life, Moreno Panozzo has never abandoned the world of art that has always been his favorite subject to investigate in his everyday work, in his individual and social relationships, in the collection of others’ works of art, in his travels and their wise arrangement, as he nearly wishes to reach his self-consciousness by all means.
Moreno Panozzo, who in his job as designer, was able to combine beauty with functionality and rationality of solutions, a man of the future, an aesthete par excellence, inevitably withdrew, thus obeying passion, in the ‘silentium’ of his painting.
He began his research route by trying several techniques among which the engraving, that is to say the primitive sign, the ‘scratch’ on the canvas, in order to finally reach the mixture of closed cells on which he was able to create, by using pigments and fibers in an exemplary way, his geometric structures, the labyrinths, his reticular cells of thought, the shelters.
Moreno Panozzo, who stands out for quickness in his everyday life and calculates time in moments, decided to make a step backwards in time, in order to search for the peace that all of us lost a little bit.
He discovered ‘otium’ as a new basic unit in order to examine deeply the inner life of the person, the peacefulness as a source of growth, the development of the personality that multiplies ideas.
He chose loneliness, he made it an ideal inspiring muse, from which a type of painting comes out that only particularly sensitive men may catch in all its essence.
He started his creative route by trying several techniques on canvas and panel. About this you can see the production from 1992 to 1997, with works such as “Strappi 1992”(tears), where it looks like he wants to show all his wish for research and test, not only in the use of materials and techniques, but also in the matching of colors and in the themes dealt with. These are the years when the artist is continuously questioning himself: he does, undoes, does again, being not satisfied of the just finished work, he sets it aside in order to take it again afterwards and recreate it obstinately, in order to give it again, stubbornly, an original look and a new life.
The works of the 1997-1999 three-year period are also polychromatic. By analyzing his engraving technique, we have the impression that in this period the author is focusing on the primitive sign, on the scratch, first on the canvas, then on petroleum panels. These compositions are thus entitled ‘Graffiti’ (graffito works).
In the 2000-2002 two-year period, in ‘Impronte 2000’ (prints) there are two colored paintings from which new matching processes, unusual relieves, new volumes, and also monochromatic warps come out, in order to prove the deep metamorphosis that involved Panozzo’s works in all this time.
“Trace 2002”, instead, are all strictly monochromatic, a mixture of painting and sculpture, thus confirming the clearness of the plastic language he acquired as well as the new artist’s ideas and geometries. Fiber balls melt in his hands, they are molded and shaped in order to become a new material moving frenetically, new ‘intellectual windows’, new openings towards the system of planets, cosmic dialogue, that is to say ‘new communication’. So, in ‘Tracce 2002’, the level of experimentation and the achieved expressive form are such that the artist may harmoniously mold the surfaces, may proportionally shape the materials, thus making Panozzo’s painting more and more orderly.
In his last project, “Luce 2003 (light)”, more and more ordered relieves stand out, as well as new wefts with skilful strokes, new shapes of matter and color. In these works of art, the artist underlines and shows his completely achieved ability in shaping and creating different relieves by means of monochromatic paintings or new color matching, thus communicating and materializing any emotional estate or achieved knowledge of his.
Light openings and geometries where we can plunge into in order to find the absolute space, to free our minds, to give space to imagination.. ... to nourish the soul of his audience.
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