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]