Wladimiro Tulli
Criticism
"…As an authentic
artist of the avant-garde, he focalises on the future and with this visionary
potential becomes a pioneer of an aesthetic revolution. He expresses himself
with material garnered from everyday life (I am referring to his collages and
use of various different materials, which have such illustrious predecessors
as Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Schwitters, Carrà and others). He piles
on used material in a kind of essential catharsis, a metaphor for the political,
democratic regeneration which would happen twenty years later. (...) Collage
thus becomes a liberation, a charismatic catharsis of matter which, under the
artist's magic wand, restructures itself into intense shapes, suggesting sudden,
previously unconsidered aesthetic solutions, by means of apparitions, visions
and perspectives which rush forward or stop for breath, with fantastically lyrical
or violent descriptions, suffused with a sense of vertigo, dialectic and at
times acting as a mirror to bring Narcissus face to face with his own beauty."
Leo Strozzieri
[Dal catalogo Wladimiro Tulli - Collages e Polimaterici, Parise editore, Verona, 1993]
"...The causes
and effects of futurism opened up a new world in attitudes towards art. In contrast
to what happens with formal innovations, as they influence various styles and
movements, futurism launched an attack on the heart of the history of western
art like a destructive war weapon. (...) You, highly respected Mr. Tulli, are,
as we all know, a direct descendant of this fascinating era. If there was an
Olympic flame in painting to be passed on from one generation to the next, you
would be holding it in your hand. (...) Please allow me to continue with a reference
to a note I made: what I really appreciate about your work is its lightness,
which is sufficient unto itself. (...) All your works are witnesses to and represent
signs of our times. Every one is a statement, or better still, a cosmos in itself
and for itself. Your colours are bright, even courageous, even more so because
most contemporary artists use such a limited range of colours in their attempt
to appear intellectual in order to enhance their careers."
K.A. Irsigler
[Dal catalogo A Wladimiro Tulli - Una lettera, in "MozarTulli - hommage", Salisburgo, 2000]
"...His colours
have a magic presence and vital energy. He uses solid colours without shades
or tones, hard and bright like paint dripping onto the canvas in lumps or spreading
itself in wide swathes. The nineteen seventies and eighties saw the beginning
of a new relationship between colour and matter, but while this use of different
materials was influenced by the work of the artist Burri, it was distinctly
different. His use of colour is the most important factor, lightening and breaking
up an idea which is otherwise strictly formal and structured, giving it a rhythm
which is sometimes joyously frenetic, sometimes dreamily relaxed."
Augusta Monferini
[Dal catalogo Wladimiro Tulli - la mia preghiera, Fondazione Stauros Italiana Onlus, Teramo, 2000]