Antonio Balletta
works in a variety of media, large graphite drawings, oil painting s and bronze
sculpture. His images are skillfully rendered, elaborately staged works that
use quiet drama, subtle expression as well as visceral symbolism as a conduit
for both personal and universal narratives.
By emphasizing aesthetics, he wants to amplify the astonishment of the
spectator, he creates compositions or settings that generate poetic images
which ;balance on the edge of recognition
and the subconscious. The images are an invitation into a story. Much of the
symbolism derives from a synthesis of personal experience. Over the years he
has developed a vocabulary of potent signs, each one iconic in its connection
with humanity. Flowers, branches, boats, nests, kangaroos and other curious
creatures populate his work. While his symbols imply tangible things he urges
us to interpret them through our own experiences and mixed bag of memories. A
branch may represent life’s forked and tenuous path yet it may also evoke
metaphors for growth and energy, while the flowers can be read as repositories
for feminine power, fertility and life’s transient beauty. The man in so many
of his images represents himself, his sons and every man. His works appear as dreamlike
images in which fiction and reality meet, allegories merge, meanings shift and
the present fuses. Balletta's art inveigles us into its world through optimism
for life journey. It makes us want to enter into the artists dialogue and
decipher its allegorical tales.
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