They
write about him :
“For Docci art is not e means of making life beautiful
bat a counter-spell to curb anxiety and fears, to exorcise
worries and “bring out” the charge of human feeling.
In part the painter sees the surrounding world from its fragile aspect:
female figures – represented plasticly – or the ovals of faces
are frozen in a sad expression, the portraits of worn people, the objects discarded
or faded by the veil of oblivion.
Therefore the tension which Docci advocates on the level of shapes responds to
the conflict of ideas between positivity and negativity: if in a part he
is really attracted by human fragility, on the other hand he moves in the
opposite way to this experience by combining “monumental” forms.”
Fulvia Croci Caimmi
“… Alessandro Docci’s
work deals with images of recomposed figurative equilibrium
and balanced projectional composition…
…What particularly characterises the world of this artist remains his
experience of life, through mnemonic visions…
Docci reveals a kind of cult, for the traces of that time which
belongs to him…
Which is translated into the most intense works, signs of real
poetry…
A painter who individuates intents, and composes methodically
and with a peripheral gaze, enigmatic presences whose individuations
is often denied.”
Mauro Capitani
“Alessandro
Docci draws his inspiration from an internal world imbibed
with poetry and personal needs and experiences, and filtered
through memories…
…it is clear that the artist directs his major effort in painting to
the way in which he can give greater vigour and strength to the problems and
contents clarifying his ideas which are neither simple nor superficial since
he tries to reconcile his dreams with the reality around him…
…to put it simply, Alessandro Docci achieves his works by means of a
figurative, modern, personal and therefore more difficult way of painting because
he has to highlight feelings, doubts, anxieties and the memories of his dreams.
In my opinion, he manages to do this very well since with time
he has acquired a valuable technique, considerable expressivity
and an appropriate and well-balanced use of colour.”
Domenico Pugliese
“For all art critics who maintain that painting is dead,
antiquated and no longer in conformity with the spirit, it
must be said that Docci’s paintings are, both as regards
colour and form, a jet of poetry full of sensual filtrations
of reality…
…they emanate peace and tranquillity and are allegories of an untouchable
world…
…Alessandro Docci’s painting breathe.”
Mattias Seitz
“… the whole production, is certainly not a reason
for anguish and desperation, which have been the raisons d’art
for many artists. It is in this that Alessandro Docci’s
originality lies…
… a figurative language which often recurs to scansion on successive levels
or which intersect to give the sense of distance in landscapes, to follow the
volume in the form. The levels are often irregular and in different colours
and can present again darts and marking highlighting the traits of preferential
motifs, which represent the artist’s strong will and his ability
to leave his own mark on what is outside himself. The colours have their confines
but they do not respect them, they overlap from the drawing, spread out and
then return like echos, they do not stay in their places, but this is the creative
freedom which convinces, involves and fascinates.”
Elio Succi
“Figures
painted with strong, expressive gestures. These faces by
Alessandro Docci appear full of emotional intensity and dramatic
testimony of existential malaise.”
Enzo Di Martino
Alessandro Docci’s figures live in the blue, ethereal
presences moving in a liquid and rarefied colour, following
the blue.
Stefania Carozzini
Alessandro
Docci paints female figures on a blue background
diluting info green. His are women looking into themselves,
friend chatting, as if each of them were coming to grips
with their own doubles.
Angelo
Siciliano
They are not real portraits, but replies to interior images
Figures which are mostly declined in the feminine, painted
in deep, cold tones, with a faint, fleeting outline, to accentuate
the malaise of our lives
Maria
Lucia Ferraguti
“ Colour
and Warmth “
They are magic boxes of moving mirrors, giving you a fleeting or
permanent look at the problems of each of the characters represented;
each photogram is a colourful breath of wind, stopping for an interminable
second, an unforgettable magic second. This is Alessandro Docci, an artist
who distributes his colour in a strong but impalpable way, combining
tradition and modernity in own personal style.
Guglielmo La
Rocca
In
Alessandro Docci’s research, colour acquires
a primary role, equal to a poetics in content expressing our
present-day disquiet. The malaise of some conditions of contemporary
man find refuge in dreamlike situations and atmospheres, in
moment of reflection that Docci sets in situations alienated
from basic realty.
Sira Ariatta
“In his paintings is reflected the contrasted field of human life; the
positive, and the negative, melancholy and joy, fear and hope, passion and
gratification. Sometimes with brushstrokes of deep colours Docci shows in his
paintings the metamorphosis of being, from the dreamed of nostalgia to
the clear, at times harsh reality.”
Martin Konermann
“The paintings show a tension between static and mobile
element. For example, there are light faces beside others which,
through the erasure of colours, seem out of focus. This technique
gives the paintings a great dynamic quality. They seem alive
and at the same time surreal. This effect, which gives the
paintings a particular note, is a specific feature of Docci’s.
Also as regards the artist’s choice of colours, blue
is dominant and gives a characteristic backdrop to his latest paintings.
For example in the striking and emotional painting entitled “Return
of Passion””
Anne- Kathrin
Auel
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