Ronaldo Torquato takes the painting to a burning state. The city burns in his paintings: in the colours, in his nervous design, in the dances of twisted ways. The emotion commands the gesture. The drawing stops being descriptive to turn into fire in the soul. Purgatory of the weight of the insane metropolis on the defenseless individual.
Ronaldo was already the painter of the midnight, that made the bars his studio and the paper towels his canvas. Now he is an alive laboratory, a test tube that mixes the whole acidity of our daily life, a guinea pig that suffers the anonymity of the crowd.
Painter of the concrete mazes / alchemist of the astonishment / the bohemian’s priest / archangel of the wild painting, Ronaldo Torquato is an urban hero. Lucid traveler of the streets and bars that transfoms the ashes of the despair in colored explosions that shine as a rebirth.
Mario Margutti
News
