Ruggero Vanni Art

Ruggero Vanni's "Into the Light" is a 64 x 52-inch abstract expressionist oil painting. Thick brushstrokes swirl elegantly around the edges, leading your gaze towards a luminous turq...

Ruggero Vanni's "Enchanted Garden" is a 64 x 52-inch abstract expressionist landscape Explosive bursts of colors in shades of purple, orange, and green come to life in a mesmerizing ...

Ruggero Vanni's Ver Vernat (Spring Swirls) is a 62 x 84-inch abstract gestural oil painting. It is an abstract landscape of vigorous brushstrokes and light, with a luminous central focus. The primary colors are purple and blue. There are explicit references to the masters of the Hudson River School, also known as Luminism, and the Romantic paintings of English artist William Turner. The connection to a spring sunset's sky is clearly there, with a feeling of motion, like clouds pushed by the wind, in a swirl of colors and shapes. Vanni works with various brush strokes, from very large to extremely small and detailed. As the viewer approaches the painting, they will be surprised by a continuous change in the texture. Vanni states, "My works allude to natural phenomena, in a raw state, devoid of the limiting constrictions of literal representation. Nature is there as a landscape, a view looking up in the air or plunging underwater. Imagery is kept on the edge of recognition, creating the final association in the mind. Contrasts of matter, color, and light are created to provoke emotional responses. In the large paintings, the atmospheric composition is built by raised brushstrokes shattered and reassembled to reveal an underlying struggle. In the smaller works, paper is cast tumultuously as a counterpoint to its inherent frailness. References to the history of painting are multiple and mixed: Venetian impasto and glazing, Luminist light, Abstract Expressionist texture, and Baroque perspective. It is important to avoid mannerisms, metabolize the suggestions and integrate them with empirical visual stimuli. Dissecting responses to everyday experiences into light, color, and matter. There is no intent to escape reality, but to create a visual experience that communicates directly with our psyche, open to be reinterpreted continuously through our evolution and the changing times." Ruggero Vanni was born in Paris. He studied painting from 1973 to 1978 at the Istituto d'Arte in Rome, Italy, under the guidance of Italian artist Michelangelo Conte...

Ruggero Vanni's "Aestas (Summer Heat)" is a 15.5 x 16 inch abstract work on paper mounted in a 25 x 25 inch black frame shadow box. The hand made paper is very tridimensional, with o...

Ruggero Vanni's "Aequinoctium Autumnale (Fall Equinox)" is a 16 x 15 inch abstract work on paper mounted floating in a 25 x 25 inch black frame shadow box. The hand made paper is ver...

Ruggero Vanni's "Aurora Vernum (Spring Dawn)" is a 16 x 15 inch abstract work on paper mounted in a 25 x 25 inch black frame shadow box. The hand made paper is very tridimensional, w...

Ruggero Vanni's "Aequinoctium Vernum (Spring Equinox)" is a 18 x 17 inch abstract work on paper. The hand made paper is very tridimensional, with orange, yellow, and blue accents of ...

Ruggero Vanni's "Brumalis Dies (Winter Solstice)" is a 18 x 17 inch abstract work on paper mounted in a 25 x 25 inch black frame shadow box. The hand made paper is very tridimensiona...

Ruggero Vanni's Occasus (Sunset or West in Latin) is a 52 x 78.5 inch abstract gestural oil painting. It is an abstract landscape of colors and light, a whirlwind of intense shades o...

This work on paper is part of a series that Ruggero Vanni has created since 2009. He casts several layers of paper that he makes. He lays them one over another carefully guiding them...

This work on paper is part of a series that Ruggero Vanni has created since 2009. He casts several layers of paper that he makes. He lays them one over another carefully guiding them to create a surface with folds and fractures. Then the pure color pigments underlines the folds and curls of the paper creating an overall feeling of energy. The strong explosion of red and orange colors permeate the crevices of the paper like crystal and geological formations. The reference to nature and natural landscapes is always a constant in Vanni's work. Though always within an abstract composition, the viewer is guided through a visual voyage reminiscent of underwater landscapes, forests, sky or nature's seasons. The title of this work, "A Mid Summer...

This work on paper is part of a series that Ruggero Vanni has created since 2009. He casts several layers of paper that he makes. He lays them one over another carefully guiding them to create a surface with folds and fractures. Then the pure color pigments underlines the folds and curls of the paper creating an overall feeling of energy. The intense shades of blue softly run through the crevices of the paper like the meander of a river. The reference to nature and natural landscapes is always a constant in Vanni's work. Though always within an abstract composition, the viewer is guided through a visual voyage reminiscent of underwater landscapes, forests, sky and nature at different times of the season. For this work, titled "Winter", the fragmented blues running through the surface are indeed reminiscent of a frozen lake or the sky in a cold winter night...