Nino La Barbera Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1945 -

Born in Mazara del Vallo in 1945, Nino La Barbera studied in the Art Institutes of Messina and Palermo. He lives and works in Rome since 1962. In 2001 he received the UNESCO prize for artistic activity. His paintings have been exhibited at Fiat (Rome), Stazione Termini (Rome), Leonardo da Vinci Airport (Fiumicino). One of his paintings (Ferrari F1 World Champion 2001) is in the multifunctional spaces of the Autodromo di Monza and another 'Organism' (Ferrari World Champion 2003) will soon be placed in the Ferrari Museum.

" Contemplating in Nature the beauty, harmony and inclination to become an organism in all its expressions, one can glimpse and recognize secret and uncontaminated traces of the divine "
( La Barbera )

The strongest power of Nature is its inaccessible way of making use of the mysterious sense of harmony: this Nino La Barbera knows it well because all of its research is focused on the study of the necessity of nature to represent itself, through the creativity of artist, computer of forms and therefore a vehicle for transmission and knowledge. The thought of Nino La Barbera is close to the vocation of the great geniuses of the Renaissance: as an artist-scientist, investigator of nature in all its manifestations, it is extremely far from the complacency of the ugly and the art screamed against humanity, circulating in some cultural contexts.

The idea that arises in his mind is that the nature that exists in us, through art, is trying to self-represent itself and, thanks to a complex, indispensable and sometimes desperate activity, entrusts the artists with the task of performing his self-portrait: nature would, in fact, seek to express itself, dissect itself through them and their ability to produce forms. During the creative process, some of them, rich in their own life, drag La Barbera beyond the initial idea and on the canvas forms are manifested that resemble cosmic and atomic structures. They refer to the origins necessarily engraved in the DNA of man and in the matter of the universe, which reappear from ancestral memories realizing real pictures in the picture.