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“Ronda de Luz”
Renato Li Vigni’s art—born in Barinas, Venezuela and transplanted to Italy at the age of nine—is grounded in lived experience transposed into an abstract, matter-based painting language.
His canvases carry an indispensable toolkit: light, which discovers, unveils and reveals, and matter, the other constant in his work. Endlessly varied across the surface, Li Vigni’s matter ripples beneath an abstract touch sometimes in overflowing strokes of colour, the bedrock of his grammar; sometimes in conceptual fissures, often gilded.
On a palette that moves between enveloping shades of deep crimson and ethereal blue, gold becomes a crucial presence. It stands out not as baroque ornament but as symbol—at times suggesting a space that opens the spirit to an elsewhere, at times signifying ascent out of darkness.
Vasilij Kandinsky asserted that “colour is a power which directly influences the soul,” and Li Vigni—an alumnus of the Palermo Academy of Fine Arts—proves it. His works breathe expressive, communicative colour: with a single glance one feels peace in his spiritual blue and restlessness in his dark, potent red.
“Ronda de Luz,” the title of his Milan solo show, presents a selection of sixteen acrylics on canvas (some never before shown) painted between 2024 and 2025.
Among the pieces, the recurring circular form speaks of life’s cyclicality—beginning and “end,” which for Li Vigni is not a total exit from existence but a crossing from earth to paradise.
“Ronda de Luz”—a clear nod to his origins—is a journey between the here and the beyond: a hushed realm of refuge, contemplation and creative force. It is a cry of faith and hope that, even in utter darkness, perceives an exit route in light—light he deems divine.
The vision on display renders the invisible visible, sustaining a constant dialogue between presence and absence.
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