Giovanni Robustelli | Vittoria-Sicily | 13th September 1980
"THE MEDEA'S DREAM". 2015
short documentary by Vincenzo Cascone
Enrico Ghezzi
[...] I consider as it is a series of overlays. Different times of the same space, different vibrations of one same space.
THE QUEST FOR IMAGES. 2015
Marco Steiner
[...] the material that language is made of, the substance of communicating without words. The drawing springs out of nothing, without a preliminary sketch or draft, but this nothing is full of stories. [...]
GIOVANNI ROBUSTELLI MULTI-COLOURED GRAPHISM. 2014
Gianni Brunoro
[...] His work is refined, almost as if it was to be appreciated only by discriminating taste, by connoisseurs, or experts with a cultured aesthetic sense. [...]
WONDERS IN ALICE’S WORLD. 2009
Ferruccio Giromini
[...] It is evident at first glance that this is a classy interpretation, a superb one. The naughty bare feet of the young protagonist, the curly mustache of the White Rabbit, the questioning look of the Eaglet are there to prove this. In the same way, this appears clearly looking at the anarchic intertwining of the trees in the wood, the ascending delight of the descending Caterpillar, the furry elegance of the March Hare, the ancient contempt of the Duchess Cook, or Alice’s shadow in the playing cards twirl [...]
Article published on "La Sicilia", on August 18th, 2014
INTERVIEW
«My precision and my obsessions»
Elisa Mandarà
[...] On a while sheet, out of nothing, a warrior’s head appears, suddenly alive and powerful, especially if we consider that it has been created without the reassuring coordinates of a preliminary sketch, without any structural line delimiting the subject and its proportions. The drawing itself is the structure that rules over the work: this is Robustelli’s specific style, he leads the drawing with a secure trait, with a precise virtuosism of the sign, with a refined miniature technique. [...]
SAINT SOULS. 2014
Andrea Guastella
[...] But Robustelli’s vision is so wide that even the Art Nouveau legacy appearing in some images only makes them more familiar rather than weighing them down. What more can I say? John Keats wrote: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”. [...]