Giulio Mottinelli Biography
Giulio Mottinelli was born in Garda, in the upper Valcamonica, in 1943. In his early twenties, after having worked in the field of photography and cinema, he decided to dedicate himself exclusively to painting, following the arduous path of self-taught. The experiences of photography and cinema have left traces in the need for rigor and in the sense of the image, as a construction, which lives on the internal rhythm of the forms placed in dialogue in the same work. The pictorial apprenticeship, experienced through contacts and relationships with other young authors, reached its first goal: the painter exhibited his works for the first time in 1965, in Gussago, his adopted town. From that moment, and until the beginning of the 1980s, his life and his poetics were profoundly influenced by the numerous trips he made to Italy, Europe and South America: direct experiences came from the trips, especially with regards to the landscape (especially like that of Latin America) and stimuli that come from the works admired in the galleries and museums visited. From the beginning he loved to enclose his poetics in series of works; almost all of his personal exhibitions, except in the not rare anthologies, live on the series, which gives rise to cycles. The pictorial cycles addressed in these twenty years concern social themes, as is the climate of the time: gradually the prison-city, the relationship between man and power, city dogs, dying Venice, and finally the long series on the lush tropical nature . It is very likely that the American landscape has favored a reading of the environment, interpreted as its own space, life space, memory, cultural sedimentation. At the end of the travel season, Mottinelli takes refuge in his homeland, abandoned as a teenager, to undertake a long and tiring journey simultaneously within himself, within his own memories, a journey that reaches up to today.
