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Esoteric visions among ascending surrealities Gian Paolo Dulbecco's art is part of the most current leamed research that, in the sphere of neo-figurative work, attempts to recover, through re-semantised references, paths that have already been safely travelled by ancient studies and the most current experimentation. The Italian and Flemish "primitive" season marries well with the lofty installation that is typically metaphysical, referable to Savinio and De Chirico, while the evidence referable to surreal painting and to Magritte in particular appears more isolated. The artist fearlessly dialogues with real paradigms in European figurative culture, succeeding in identifying connecting paths for the institution of a language, one having a post-modern feel perhaps, but which is able to revert to working an emotional fascination on the spectator. True spectacle and at the same time spiritual brilliance, Dulbecco's landscapes appear as the anatomic dissection of the psyche in which, through cultural time, the ancient legacies of civilization — which we now call unburied following memory's oblivion — precipitated and for long remained nameless. This is not therefore, excavatory work; it is dissolving the fog that obstructs the recovery of knowledge caused chiefly by the current pollution of ideas that are only apparent.
Nicola Scontrino
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