Davide Baroggi, LA MIA VITA

Room 16

I do these paintings because I feel them inside. One might wonder why I choose to represent landscapes, portraits or houses isolated in a landscape. The house has the meaning of a person. I only know the outside but not the inside. Like a family. I am on the outside, I can never get inside.
The animals are the ferocity, the savage, the representation of my life.
Colour is energy, sensation. Dimension that I transform into my reality. Red, yellow, blue, very strong colours. Expressionist. In my soul I feel a bit Nordic, I love Kirchner and Nolde, with his childish paintings, but full of emotion!
Davide Baroggi

…What is happening in these images, or what has ‘already’ happened? Is there a present or only a suspension between waiting and abandonment? Is there a before of creation or its irreversible agony? Exposed on the precipice of nothingness and yet capable of manifesting themselves with the invention, even absurd, of colour, with the soaring of the sign, the convulsive precipitation of narrative times, these paintings live on the anxiety that has generated them and, even in their convulsive instance, they still question us on the reasons for living.
Claudio Olivieri

Davide Baroggi was born in 1974 in Locarno (Switzerland). He lives and works in Pavia.