Giuseppe Carta Biography
Giuseppe Carta was born in Sardinia in 1950 and has had a strong passion for painting since childhood. As a teenager he also became interested in music and decided to enroll at the Nicolò Paganini Conservatory in Genoa to study the piano. Subsequently, he moved to the Antonio Vivaldi State Conservatory of Alessandria, where he completed his studies in piano and deepened his teaching on music and the organ. From 1973, Carta began to dedicate himself to a series of artistic activities, including the preparation and direction of a children's choir and a polyphonic choir, also teaching musical education. In the meantime, he attended the “Città di Varallo” summer musical courses as a student of interpretation and reading of opera scores. Carta became a piano and organ teacher and also attended courses in music therapy techniques at the Regional Institute of Experimental Research and Educational Updating in Genoa. In 1988, he concluded the courses with a thesis entitled "Elements of music therapy and Down syndrome in a school context".
In the 1980s, Carta left teaching to dedicate himself entirely to painting, with an increasingly strong interest in pictorial realism. During this period, he met the Genoese gallery owner Rinaldo Rotta, who became an important mentor in his artistic evolution. The underlying theme of Carta's work is Nature, which he portrays in its moments of maximum splendor and also of transience, evolution and maturation. For Carta, Nature is a harbinger of beauty and new life, even in situations where life appears exhausted.
Carta's still lifes are of touching realism, characterized by an almost obsessive attention to the smallest details. He paints goblets, glasses, finely embroidered tablecloths, tables laden with light and colour, baskets, books, owls, pumpkins, lemons, pomegranates, onions, grapes, potatoes, figs and everything that Nature can offer in vivid visions made even more alive by light, a vital and functional element in all his work.
In sculpture, Carta uses the ancient technique of lost wax casting and produces sculptures that he likes to call "Germinations", which reflect Nature's ability to generate new life and hope. His works are exceptionally capable of communicating and transmitting the values of the products of the earth through art, transforming them into living and precious objects, contemporary symbols of the collective artistic experience.
Carta's art is not only intuitive and imaginative, but also technical. The artist achieves greater technical expertise with the interpretation of the truth of nature through painting and sculpture. Paper probes with careful inspection both the whole and the detail, as well as the setting and the skilful scenography of the sum of the pieces.
