Federico Battistin is choice, change, adventure, silence, dreams, challenge, courage, nature, respect, tranquility, time, introspection. As an artist and human he tries to follow the thrust within himself and to convey his experiences, needs and feelings through his works.

Federico Battistin uses clear and precise features to represent his vision of the world. Born in a small town in the Italian pre-Alps, his nature is immediately predisposed to the discovery of the nature that surrounds him with which he generates a maternal connection to the point of making it almost an ideal refuge in the dark moments of life and a place to feel better when everything is already flowing.

After completing his studies in Architecture in nearby Venice, he decides to venture into the world to discover new places where he can still feel at home, even if always in a different way; the knowledge of the fresh woods and rocks of the mountains pushes him to seek new sensations in the ocean. The choice falls on Central America where he spends five long months discovering the waves of the Pacific and the crystalline Atlantic in the Caribbean Sea where he makes surfing and scuba diving his favorite tools to discover the new ecosystem, aquatic world to him resonating immediately, almost feeling part of the liquid once immersed in its enveloping embrace, which cleans away anything unwanted and regenerates a new light of tranquility between the fibers. Every sensation and emotion is imprinted in every cell of his body which feels the need to imprint it on paper to transmit it to people who are reluctant to give vent to the curiosity necessary to discover marine nature from the inside. The result is a linear style certainly coming from his university training, identifying the curves formed by the moving fluid by means of orthogonal section lines to the horizon that extend in the direction of the movement of the water. The technique of drawing on paper is an easy and practical form of representation to be transported and performed while traveling but his intention is to represent nature so much his friend in a material with which he can transmit to the observer its fragility as well as beauty of the play of reflections, lights and shadows that make it so magical. It is during his prolonged stay in New Zealand that he begins to engrave plasterboards previously covered with a layer of black color, the technique immediately convinces him and the artist is surprisingly amused and stimulated in rediscovering the shining white of plaster from under the artificially distributed black evenly on the smooth surface, the dark-colored cleaning action revives those feelings of freedom and emotions of natural happiness experienced during direct contact with the salt water of the oceans, with forests, woods and mountains that have always been explored around the place of birth as a child and young boy, rediscovering within himself that purest part that is present within the human being. Obviously, the technique is immediately used in the representation of all the natural ecosystems by the artist so much loved and, during subsequent times still in the Alps, the white is still freed from the dark layer until the rocks and the penetrating light are discovered in the plasterboards the woods and forests. Forests widely and accurately represented during the lockdown during which the artist, imprisoned at home, dreams of spending time among his favorite ecosystems. This is how a collection of paintings comes out in which there is a direct collaboration of the much desired nature in fact, during the preparation of one of the panels, the wind, crossing the room, blown between the open windows, carried and dropped a piece of newspaper in a corner of the panel while the plaster was still damp, Federico, almost sorry, peels the paper off the surface which naturally creases and creates a particular texture, it is in seeing this effect that the smile appears and the artist senses the help that nature provides him to proceed in his artistic evolution. The work is entitled – as the collection - "New Light, New Beginning". From this event the artist uses newspaper to "ripple" the smooth surfaces of his panels and from that moment on he has a multitude of intuitions that have led him to study a new collection, which we will soon see, inspired by the third dimension in the paintings depicting landscapes. Always aware of being part of nature, the artist always captures a human impersonation in his subjects exactly as in the case of the "Connections" collection, which will be published in 2021, where he metaphorizes the biochemical connection between trees through the representation of the nodes created cutting the branches from the trunks of the trees themselves which seem communicating eyes and gazes of different moods, transporting the visitor to a forest in the exhibition room and at the same time sensitizing him to respect for the nature of which we all belong. Stay up to date ...

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