Rolando Rovati was born in Ghedi, in the province of Brescia, on July 9, 1951. At a young age he made on-the-road trips to the West and the East, graduated in Medicine and practiced medicine for almost forty years, but he also drew and painted for over fifty years and continues to do so. In the 1970s he began a careful research that, after a figurative period, led him to the abstract experience in the 1990s with the realization of a pictorial syntax that combines spontaneous expressive impetuosity with order, balance, symmetry and decoration. For Rolando Rovati, abstractionism and informalism were the truly great liberating revolution in contemporary art. Certain assumptions such as the immediacy of expression and the inclusion of Chance in the artistic process were grounds for further exploration. This quest led him to combine randomness and determination. As the lines curve or run parallel or cross, the hand guides him through his chaotic world and helps him deepen his self-knowledge. At the same time, he suggests the result of his experience to the viewer by providing him with elements of knowledge of his inner world. Today in his painting there are studied, calculated and constructed signs that have an already written future and signs that are born unpredictable, but not for that reason with a less rich future. With these assumptions, Rovati sows signs as points of repère, of reference, on which to go and define territories through contacts, crossings or distancing. If the original sensory stimuli seem poor to him, he draws new sap from memory and imagination so that what he produces, taking on a more detailed and definitive aspect, is less ephemeral. The result is a harmonious fusion of emotion, memory, imagination and sign, form, color. In his painting he seeks the happiness of the child he was, and his primary goal is to arouse that same innocent emotion in the person viewing his work.
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