Emerging quickly as an artist, Giancarlo Sarvese has had a long-lasting bond with the town of Este (Padua), where his work has always been inspired by a peculiar creativity.
Painting has quickly become the vehicle which allows him to express a strong artistic sensibility. His original experiments, starting from the use of genuine explosions of colour and frequent additions of tactile elements, finally achieved a full interaction between each one of his works and the environment, by means of lighter and apparently clearer shapes.

Since the beginning of his career, his art has come into being on canvas, making something evanescent out of a type of painting that abandons drawing and models his shapes through colours, something highly tactile “rising” the colours into genuine “explosions” of the canvas itself. Cuts and slots are filled with soil, fire and water, thus expressing what most attracts and touches him in the natural environment in a sort of “creative burst”…

The message that Giancarlo wants to share is filled with a range of emotions that impulsively need to turn into skilful and restrained aesthetic structures. You can’t remain indifferent, you participate in his paintings by means of strong and immediate thrusts, be they positive or negative, but nonetheless undeniably engaging. Giancarlo Sarvese started to paint because of a strong and repressed personal urge to express and objectify all the feelings he had gone through in his life. Passion, anger, love, sadness and happiness have thus found a “door” opened to the world, with which he wants to share and where he seeks the “warmth” and the empathy he needed, through the looks and the words from his audience… It’s no surprise that many of his works feature a door, a passage, giving access, also visually, to itineraries, memories, experiences, all skilfully represented by means of colours and drawings in a very personal and emotional style.

The almost obsessive intensity of his doing art leads him to produce large-scale paintings, just following his creative urge till its final achievement, unable as he is to stop the creative process in this emotional route. His paintings are free from any unnecessary embellishment, in order to produce an instinctive expression of Beauty and Spirituality at the same time. In a short period of time Giancarlo Sarvese has achieved an assertive and well-defined personal stylistic feature, though his artistic route is still evolving and will no doubt be increasingly incisive and shattering.

The creation of artworks with changing appearance and colours in the light and in the dark is new to his evolution, thus stimulating creativity and exploring new techniques for an increasingly captivating performance. The use of fluorescent colours, along with the Wood’s lamp, moves his imagination and the dreamlike side of his works. And yet again, since the end of 2013, swinging from the use of colour and non-colour, he finally achieved “white” paintings, where just a few touches of colour, sometimes along with tactile elements, invade the canvas.

He is very good at adding and removing, fluctuating between a sense of heaviness and of lightness, as if driven by opposing emotional forces. The insertion of handwritten elements, reproducing either real or imaginary “words”, is another interesting feature appearing, almost in the form of wall writing, in some of his latest works. Is that the sign of a need to express himself and look for the audience’s understanding? There is certainly a strong desire to communicate, more extensively and by more explicit means!

Francesca Mariotti