Agostino Arrivabene

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After his initial training at art school, in which, Arrivabene says, he learnt next to nothing, he toured around Europe and studied the paintings of old masters. He researched how to grind his own pigments, lapis lazuli, indigo, cinnabar and madder, dragon’s blood, orpiment and bistre, and almost forgotten techniques of painting like mischtechnik, a painting technique used by artists such as Albrech Dürer and Grünewald. • In mischtechnik, egg tempera is used in combination with oil-based paints to create translucent layers which, when laid over each other, refract light through the painting creating a sense of light and luminosity. • This attention to the minutiae of his craft has resulted in Arrivabene’s paintings actually embodying a process of alchemical transformation, in which the physical matter of painting itself, the lead, the ground pigment, the egg, the oil, is transmuted through the agency of his craft into extraordinary light-filled visions. • [more at: http://weirdfictionreview.com/2013/09...] • [http://www.agostinoarrivabene.it/] • Music: Alio Die Abu

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