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FRANCESCO RUSPOLI

Lives and works in Cardiff, United Kingdom
www.francescoruspoli.com

“Art expresses a fundamental part of what it means to be space and its shifting possibilities within the contemporary

human. It is through art that the conflicts of life can be world in which we all dwell. It explores the dynamic frontier
explored, better understood, brought to the surface and between abstraction and figuration, keeping alive the infinite
put into new relationships with each other. I believe we are possibilities of being human in an age intent upon limiting
living in an unprecedented time of the breakdown in human them. Here is a certain defiant romanticism that insists that

relationships and interactions. This is happening from the emotions are precious, that meaning is creative and that there
individual and personal level to the opposite geopolitical is a world beyond commodities.
end of the spectrum. We tend to think of interactivity in Using a strikingly vibrant palette, each painting presents
terms of technology these days rather than as human a symphonic dance of colour, where subtle gradation and

feeling and connection. dramatic contrast express nuances of emotion and sensuous
My art is meant to directly challenge this state of affairs so physicality. It offers a timely reminder of our shared
to re-invigorate and re-inspire the emotional and spiritual embodied life with its hopes and dreams, pain and loss, and
dimensions of human life, which are inevitably in direct the poignancy of yearning. Thus, the eternal human dance

conflict with much of what we see around us in our world of reaching out and holding back is movingly enacted - with
now. These are central question not just of what art is, but the viewer included in imaginative participation.
of what art does, and can or even should do. The biggest The work expresses the direct sensation of lived experience
frustration has been struggling against a system that attempts through organic shapes and forms woven from flowing lines

to codify what sells, thereby killing creativity and individual and the gaze of the viewer. You are invited to participate
expression. It has taken me many years to find my creative in a creative encounter with these elements, constructing
voice, and a large part of this has been a struggle against such your own visual languages, responses and meanings. From
commercial forces. They are very powerful and insidious, and this aesthetic encounter, urgent questions will arise about
ARTIST institutionally dismiss or ignore what they lack the capacity the quality of engagement between humans and their many

to appreciate or understand.” environments. It is hoped there also follows an increased
Francesco Ruspoli’s work is an exploration of relational sense of wonder at your own capacity for re-interpretation

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