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"dentro e fuori una cornice"

Paolo Dongu is delicate sage and elegant writer of the surrounding world. Has hit me the cure of the detail that in the natural expressions makes the protagonists of his works real, true distinguishing features of that truth not subject to variable interpretations, but pure, objective. A brassiere that it is caught a glimpse, a contracted face, an aware look an obvious pain is covered and completed travels, the picked aspects, the lived life. A figuration that surprises me and fascinates me every time that my look falls on the canvas. Its works, are not just this but persons; not only looks, but storys of life. Are encounter made on the road, stolen moments, intimate rests, silences and inner shadows. Because in the contemporary there is not only the aesthetics one but also ethics there is the solitude and the tiredness. Is undeniable to pick the talent of this artist who makes of his poetry an evocative instrument and open of a reality. Its introduces itself like revelations that writes on the canvas, from a little discovered, or on the table and that which pages of a diary are revealed on which the feelings and the thoughts slide incessant, as notes that speak about encounter, crashes, memories. Protagonists who whisper to themselves in the whole field.

(Dott.sa Francesca Mazzarelli)

"mangiArte"

The humanity painted from Paolo Dongu manifest, in the features and the look, the ordinary fierceness of life that passes imperceptibly, imprint its signs on the faces and in the history of the single ones. With remarkable psychological fineness, it leaves to emerge the characterizing wriggle the essence of the prechosen subjects, entrusting itself to the apparition of the simpler gestures.

(Dott.sa Daniela Madonna folder "Mangiarte” July 2008)

"incontARTI 2006"

The image-body is that which still today conserve a strong symbolic valence, that servants “to express the inexpressible”, that more than all catalyzes the attention… and more than all it worries. Paolo Dongu constantly it uses like subject, very conscious of the distinction between the Body and the idea of the Body and, through his sage painting, starts the “rewriting” of a “new one humanism”, obviously like a metaspeech. The pictorial representation returns to express through the symbols a situation that calls the attention on the precariousness and difficulty to describe the contemporary man, to give it properly of “Sense.” Senses move between a dimension of gesture impulses, existential and expressionistics, abolishing completely the space, that it stops of being strong reference system. Such crushing does not allow to recognize a formal relation between the parts, abolishes the frontier: between body and world there is not some contradiction. It comes eliminated the centric role of the subject, its leading part. This is noticed in a dislocated position, in elsewhere, that it means free from a representation reassured, but does not deprive of an own incidence. In Senses the body is met thus like is lived, thus like also the artist, in its twofold one or undifferentiated role live it: the paradigm become again simulacrum, the stereotype become again archetype… and thus through the all eyes, all mouth, the body touches, listens to and shout its possible identity.

(Dott.sa Debora De Gregorio “Catalogue incontrARTI 2006” July 2006)

"incontARTI al borgo 2004"

The painting of Paul Dongu is made of faces that carry fixed the signs of personal stories, intimate, whispered from real protagonists or perceived from the untiring spirit of observation of the artist, sensitive singer of a tried humanity nevertheless lively. The colors to oil, spread of preference on table, leave to appear through the tangle of designs coaches who seem nearly the print of the thoughts subtended to emerging of the definitive image. The final result provokes that delicate astonishment felt in front of a revelation long kept, or rocked between perception and reflection. Intentionally, the artist expresses in pictorial cycles the stages of its itinerarium of artistic and spiritual maturation, look at himself in the little ones represented worlds and entrusting himself to the autobiographism. The works of Paolo are pages of a diary of the memory, suspended between wonderful travels inside of natural universes, particulary Mediterranean and literary. At the eye of the observer every of his touch appears vibrating but quiet, serene nevertheless problematic.

(Dott.sa Daniela Madonna “Catalogue incontrARTI al borgo” August 2004)

Paolo Dongu and the way of the memory

Between the painters of the new generation emerges Paolo Dongu, an endowed temperament of detached figurative dowries, intuitive for instinct in the graphical expression, amazing in the interpretation of the aesthetic aspects of the outer world. Of this artist we must put in evidence the potentialities, moreover not still completely express, and the deep conceptuality due to laudable meditative trace, nearly that the man painter rather means to dedicate himself to an intense structural search of the matter. And its characteristic way to interpret the painting is still more to point out since the formation of Paolo Dongu has happened to outside of the academism, but spontaneous, autodidactic, nearly that becoming of the art in him it is gushed magically, stimulated from an overbearing creative impulse, of manifestation of own being, through the figurative representation. So in Dongu is from placing the accent on the human gasping outstretched to trace a distance of the memory. Indeed, his artistic visions have an evocative substrate, approached to traces and testimonies engraved in the past, that the artist, it succeeds to pick and to render concrete motivating them from dense aesthetic connotations of meaning. Are these “emotionalities” to notice the painting of Paolo Dongu, these his creative moments legacies to his speculative nature, nearly rigorously voted to interpret the meanders of the memory, to cover the evolutionary moments, to pick up feelings and images, with which rendering form and color of a composition. And it is, moreover, the sign, become art work, that it polarizes the interest of the painter, nearly ineluctable fascination gushed from the mysterious fantasy in order to become truth concrete, that which we define fixed art in the memory, that Paolo Dongu succeeds to delineate with a spontaneous graphic, perspectively perfect, with chromatic approaches of great dynamism. Very rarely it has happened to meet an artist of such formation, whose chromatics phenomenon are approached to a classic romanticism, in which emerge lyric feelings of great spiritual valence, like in Paolo Dongu, a talent painter, of sure future.