Clouds, Mighty Without Movement - Original Oil Paintings

Clouds, Mighty Without Movement - Original Oil Paintings

by ARTERY GALLERY

Renowned Italian artist Alberto Bertoldi has prepared over 30 personal exhibitions across his homeland and now for the first time, he has been introduced to the UK through Artery Gallery, based in St Andrews and Crieff in Scotland.
Bertoldi’s art is fascinating and beautiful since his subject, the sky and the clouds, is equally fascinating and beautiful. Alberto explains, “I was flying on a plane, and as it broke through the clouds, I experienced a most incredible moment. While I was looking out of the window, the plane seemed to hang between the sea and infinity, between sky and earth. With extreme emotion I watched what humans three thousand years ago could only imagine.

When I reached my destination, I dared to watch the horizon again, now from the tiny beach of St Vincente, and I realized for the first time the clouds, mighty, without movement or speed, act like curtains. I witnessed how this curtain of clouds hid the endless universe and its sound.”

Alberto Bertoldi was born in Torino in 1955. He started painting from an early age and besides a brief spell at the Academy of Arts in Brera, is largely considered a self taught artist. Alberto held his first exhibition at the age of 18 though shortly after suspended his painting for a long period of time. Upon reaching 33 years of age, Alberto returned to his work, in complete solitude, with intense work and studying various subjects. Now, differently to his earlier subjects, he looked towards the ancient artists of Northern Europe that were closer to his propensity for landscape painting and, in general, for the aesthetic of sublime.

To view the work by Alberto Bertoldi, log on to the Artery Gallery website at www.arteryuk.com/artists/Bertoldi,Alberto/ or email enquiries@arteryuk.com

New work by Alberto will be arriving end of September, early October 2007.