Artist Pier Toffoletti
Udine, Italy, 1957
Pier’s passion for art was obvious from a very early age, and his family quickly realised he had inherited his grandfather’s artistic talent. When he was 12, the gift from an aunt of two books on Michelangelo and Cézanne stimulated him to try and copy the illustrations. Painted figures, most of them female, become an integral part of the background with just a few strokes of the brush. In an interview for the November 2004 issue of the Japanese art magazine Art Pictorial, Pier revealed that the subject – woman – is a pretext for a representation of the natural essence that lies deep in all of us. It is nature stripped of all prejudice or disguise. In Pier’s art, marks and graffiti have become a mysterious language.
Recently, Pier has said that “the media bombard us with images and words. Text after text now just bounces off me because I have a simple mind and I cannot take too many inputs. So I look at the texts, I strip them of their meaning and find them interesting as texture, as images. I recycle them in my paintings, turning them into an art form”.
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