Giovanni Alberti – Sacred Art Is Also A Form Of Protest
Giovanni Alberti. A contemporary Italian artist whose art is born from “solitude, reflection and daily exercise”. He believes that sacred art is a beautiful form of a protest against meaningless “consumer goods” decorations in churches.
Giovanni Alberti is A contemporary Italian artist from Emilia-Romagna. He works in mixed technique using acrylics, tempera and pencils. His artworks can be found in liturgical spaces and in publications, as illustrations.
His passion for painting he discovered as teenager when he first felt the fascination and the charm of the image he could create on paper or canvas. Giovanni is a self-taught artist, his education was in the field of technical science which every once in a while echoes in his artworks with texture, lines and shapes.
When Giovanni Alberti describes the process of how his artworks are created he says that they are born from solitude, reflection and daily exercises.
A musician is not just sitting there at the piano forcing himself to compose something. He warms up his hands, practices the keys, rehearses, listens to the sounds, experiments. For me it’s the same thing – a daily exercise which I do with my tools, brushes, pencils… plus the search for interesting ideas.
Giovanni Alberti
In his view, the modern reality filled with the mass-produced art has reduced even the liturgical objects to the level of consumer goods. That’s why Giovanni Alberti is willing to take the challenge of designing and creating sacred art and liturgical art objects that are unique and have a meaning. In this sense he calls his art a form of a protest.
A beautiful form of a protest of sacred art against meaningless consumer goods decorations in churches.
Website : caelumarte.it
Facebook: Caelum Arte di Giovanni Alberti
Giovanni Alberti’s workshop and art studio CAELUM ARTE with exhibition spaces is located in Piacenza, Italy.
