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A sharp and keen glance that
reassembles tesserae in a contained world, but rich in life ferments…By these
paths thought gets line, sign and color, fixing on canvas in softly rough shapes,
sometimes, but always new and unedited, and returned alive by the particular sensitivity
af an artist who found his natural habitat, he knows where to live and operate between the
hard rocks shaped by the wind. Images like fragments of life, flash with bright harmony,
then become dense with a deep contemplative wealth; elements featuring and representing a
painting that drowns its mnemonic and oneiric contents in a continuous but steady recall
to certitudes of reality that so acutely surrounds it… Francesco Manconi … A true innovator silently making his way in the contemporary outline. Singular, his use of color in the totality of shades, peculiar, his short line and dense gestuality, impetuous, his personality… Rubens D'Oriano, 1994 …To believe, like some masters did and do, that color is everything, as far as making it body and soul in a painting, refusing each figuration, certaingly is a sign of a new alight sensitivity and of courage, too… Enzo Fabiani, 1995 … Interior visions developed through a chromatic choice, that put him in the actuality of contemporary art… Andrea Nieddu … cold flames of light and deep blue, as an aquatic embrace; red, yellow and ochre spots that, if well-observed, turn into a visage or a nude of a woman. A gallery of dreams and hallucinations that seem to allude to nightmares, ancestral fears, unconfessed wishes. Images with a strong relish of impressionism… Annapaola Ricci ...in Filigheddu's paintings you seize a twinkling cosmos of tints (often there are complemetary colours) in which you can dimly see visages of men and women in motionless expressions, something like masks. It is not difficult to resemble this kind of painting to Webern's musical structure. It is bound by the rythmic and timbric values of the serial law that co-ordinates the frequency in the succession of notes. In this artist, it is a succession of coloured points... Wally Paris
the very personal review of ancient mosaic techniques recurs in his paintings. These mosaics are not made of stone, now. They are made of shapes, of visages, sometimes they are made of very bright touchs that join one another in complemantary tonalities. In the end these colors emerge again in this manifest simplicity of drawing. Everything looks like a naturalistic microcosm made of cells, of atoms, of molecules that react and follow each other. So the painting gets alive as a work of art... Giorgio Camilleri De Longhi , June 2000
If the brushes were alive and could paint by themselves without any intervent by the artist, maybe they would choose to dance all together on the canvas without any preconceived hierarchies of shapes and colors, better than obeying to a hand that commands. The final result would not be different from that world full of bright light and of apparent anarchy emerging from the animated surfaces of Filigheddus work. Both the evident remoteness from any foregoing school and the contrast between the outward casualness of the outline with shapes that slolwy reveal themselves really can amaze everyone... Pasquale Filangieri, February 2001
...when observing Mauro Filigheddu's work one feels as he's floating in multicoloured atmospheres of dreams, where reality and unreality mix together and alternate one another... Santi LIcheri, 2003 ... visages, eyes, noses, bodies remain in our mind, they are captured and immediate pictures that dwell inside us between reason and emotions. They are so strong and do not decompose, they remain clear, tidy images. Daniela Criscitiello, 2004
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...In
Mauro Filigheddu's work it is possible to notice a pied multiplicity of
themes. With the exception of
the artists Maskfaces recurrent
theme, the residue is a colourful sequence that runs not only to
impressionist subjects: it is probable to catch sight of some glimmers that
lead to Pollocks work, in the inescapable
randomness of
colour insertion. Paolo Frongia, 2006 |
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... A mysterious pyx filled up with dreams. This is what Mauro Filigheddu creates with a grand character. His art lies at the borderline of unreal, is rich in feelings, in emotions, involves the observer in a profound meditation... |
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