José Zanni

José ZANNI, a native of Corsica and from a family of artists, is entirely self-taught. His sensitivity for art appeared very young, and since 2001, personal or collective exhibitions and prizes and distinctions mark his career. The catalog of his works continues to grow, and clearly demonstrates a deepening of his creation, as well as the desire to stimulate an innate sense of aesthetics in painting.

At first figurative, José ZANNI evolves in his way of representing the world and decides to explore nature by breaking it down into triangles. This is what he calls his "Geometric Period", in which he declines pure and well-drawn forms according to his method of dividing space in order to stylize the subjects. This is neither a simple reduction nor a splitting up of the figure in the Cubist manner. Through prismatic effects, landscapes and genre scenes come out simplified, without banishing depth and volume. The rhythmic compositions show an extraordinary dynamic. Great colorist, lover of pure colors and light effects, José ZANNI reinvents, with a very personal chromaticism, a dreamlike universe nourished by his passions.

Having reached this stage, it seemed inevitable that the painter would not have the ultimate temptation of abstraction. His last period approaches it, however, with his series of blue monochromes. The formal reality sometimes disappears there to give way to the subtle and dynamic play of the textures of the pictorial material and the white traces which bring out the light. Their relationships are endlessly explored. This creation suggests a fourth dimension, out of space and out of time, and leads to works based on harmony, like Kandinsky's Lyrical Abstraction, aimed at revealing the creative emotion of its author.