Ian Bertolucci
Dino , 2024
Ian Bertolucci (b. 1995) is an Italian painter whose oil paintings turn gummy bears, balloons, and familiar toys into studies of light, colour, and surface. His subjects retain the associations of childhood while their reflections, folds, and translucent edges reward close looking.
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Bertolucci graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara in 2019, specialising in painting and visual arts. He returns to familiar objects through changes in lighting, viewpoint, and colour, exploring the difference between how a material looks and how we remember it feeling.
Glossy sweets and inflatable forms give him a vocabulary of reflections and distortions. Their apparent simplicity allows the precision of the painting to come forward: a highlight describes a curve, a shadow gives weight to a soft form, and colour shifts between an object and its surroundings.
