Title: Addiction, La recherche
Year: 2019
Size: 100 X 100 x 3 cm
Technique: Acrylic on cotton canvas

Critical text by Art Curator Silvia Grassi:
“The painting is like a refuge, a raft that takes you where your spirit leads: let it wander and only satisfaction and joy will come.” (PRrussi)
As he himself tells us, monotony and routine are not part of the vocabulary of the artist Pascal Russi, known as PRUSSI. What inspires him is indeed quite the opposite. In thirty years of career, he has never stopped, always experimenting with new techniques, new expressive registers, always taking the freedom to change, go in different directions, and always evolve. The passion for what he creates is his creative engine that drives him to always find new means to express himself, his life, creating a world that makes him happy and comfortable.
For this personal exhibition, he wanted to present a Capsule collection that shows us a facet of his painting, intriguing us and leaving the door open to discover the entire world he has managed to create over the years. The three works presented perfectly dialogue with each other, referencing each other through small details. What characterizes them is the contrast, but at the same time, the harmony, between the bold black lines and the very vivid color choices. In each work, there is a harmonious dialogue between different techniques and styles.
In “La bouteille bleue,” we find sinuous forms, which seem to move within the composition, distinctly deviating from the background in terms of geometries and color choices. As the title itself suggests, the protagonist of the work is the blue bottle, positioned in the visual focus of the composition, which stands out and becomes a reference point in the reading of the work due to the chromatic choice. The color choices recall the 4 elements, thus all the reality that surrounds us: the red, yellow, and orange shades of the lively fire that burns and moves just like the sinuous lines of the work; the green of the earth, in its roundish form, which also characterizes our planet; the shades of blue that identify the bottle, with the water inside it; and finally, the white ripples, as if they were gusts of air sneaking in. The composition is made even more dynamic and free to express itself by the geometric staticity of the background, which however recalls the choice of the protagonist of the visual narrative.
Instead, in “Addiction .La recherche,” background and subject complement and harmonize, also recalling each other in their substantial differences. Here too we find sinuous forms, well outlined by dark shapes, from the previous work, as absolute protagonists of the work that take command of the composition; finding here, however, a chromatic counterpart also in the background. We perceive a reference, a continuous search between the two entities of the work. The juxtaposition of small signs of only primary colors, combined with the white and black lines, give life to all the infinite colors of the internal fillings. It is the exterior that thus gives life, shaping, the protagonist of the work, just as everything around us inevitably creates or influences who we are, what we do, and how we express ourselves.
Finally, in the work “À votre santé,” we always find references to the first work, but this time geometric shapes reminiscent of the shape of bottles in the background, which here become the protagonists of the story. From a red carpet of bottles, gaps suddenly open, revealing a black and dark background, from which large fiery red bottles try to emerge, inviting us to toast to health (hence the title). The subtle black contour lines become predominant here, capturing even more visual attention and further demarcating their function of delineating spaces, no longer just two-dimensional, but here three-dimensional, opening the doors to another scene.