Alberto Zampieri: the representation of the unconscious
Every visual artist tend to answer to the fundamental question about the meaning of life with increasingly complex images, according to the evolution of knowledge and, when possible, anticipating his or her time.
The introduction of Psychoanalysis produces an artistic research able to go deeper inside the human soul, with more emphasis on introspection.
Zampieri’s artworks are able to materialize the psychology of contemporary men, showing the shape of unconscious, that is an aggregate of surreal substance in which memories, emotions and dreams appear, swinging between anguish and calm.
Starting from the artistic-literary lesson of Max Ernst and through the works of Sigmund Freud, Zampieri senses that in the visual representation there is always deception, a sort of injustice of not being able to express thoughts in a dialectic manner. This is why he decides to go beyond the figurative representation to reach an intimate, private, personal metaphysic.
Perhaps “transfiguration” is the best term to describe the attempt to show through artworks the flow of ideas that characterize first the oneiric phase of an artist and then his reworking during daytime.
Zampieri achieves this attempt by fusing the search for a sign that never stays the same, but that fits the context.
To answer to the eternal question about the meaning of human existence, first of all he wants to dwell on the meaning of his own life, using a variety of visual solutions to blend the personal level with the universal level. In this way he can successfully fulfill the dual task.
The most distinctive feature of this artist is certainly his ability to regenerate himself through every single new artwork, in a constant search for the best means and techniques to introduce the viewer into an alchemical process.
The sole purpose of this process is to show the emotional landscape of human mind, using the unconscious as an agent of expression.