What a joy to have painting as a passion!
You can allow yourself to do anything. You have to!
I am 84 years old and this world continues to amaze me.
So I trust it and go down paths, without knowing where they end.
I forget what I know.
A lot of chance, surprises and the unexpected. But above all freedom, poetry perhaps. A reactive, intuitive, almost animal work, focused on the essential.
That’s what I want to say about what I’m doing now. I feel free.
In recent years, Proverbio continued his research with another series of works with what he called the Aesthetics of Water: photographs of simple geometric elements taken through wa- ter. Proverbio finds in these deformations an inexhaustible mine of organic forms, seen sur- reptitiously in the reflections of the water. In a further exploration of these organic and kinetic forms, Proverbio has in recent years been creating mixed-media collages. Set against an end- less matt black background, like his photograms, these coloful forms ooze and burst across the surface, remininscent too of forms that one can find in nature. In the words of the artist: