Giancarlo Bertini

Giancarlo Bertini's art is concerned with the conflict between a meaningful rural existence and the alienation that contemporary technology has inflicted on his home country of Chile, as well as of Mexico. The paintings frequently take a bird's-eye view, as pastoral objects such as livestock or fruit hover over an abstract landscape, often disintegrating and blending in with a background composed of abstract shapes and scratches reminiscent of Cy Twombly. Through this select use of multiple visual styles, a wide range of moods and themes comes forth. His subjects frequently appear abandoned in realms of ironically beautiful textures and dramatic composition.

By challenging our expectations about beauty in a painting and its topics, Giancarlo's works articulate not only the themes of his work - an uneasy evolution from a rural economy to an industrial one - but also an expression of anxiety over the individual's purpose in the contemporary flux. Giancarlo Bertini's challenging work forcefully conveys the widespread concern about industrialization and the ambiguous promises of progress.