• "... the colour tone, the same way of arranging it on the canvas, the spaces that fill up, and so the shapes that are created... And then, the combinations with other colours, one after the other, one that "calls" the other, like chords on the keyboard of a piano. This is for me the subject's beginning, what might be called "inspiration" ... " (From Renato Bussi's notebook)

  • "... A colour, a mark, a shape that is about to be born on the canvas, like the first dawn light, is not only an art event, it's also what is inside man's things, relive them, communicate them with colour. Colour, that is frame of mind, knowledge, consciousness of our own existence and of the life that surrounds us. To paint goes beyond pure artistic activity: it's a way of feeling, seeing, communicating. It's a way of life. Most of all, it is knowing the things that aren't visible, listening to those inner voices that make the image that ends up on the canvas through colour emerge." (From Renato Bussi's notebook)

  • "... The fundamental interest is colour, and naturally light, which is colour's essence. So, there is no substantial difference between my paintings, let's say, from the past and the one of these last few years. The difference, if we can talk about a difference, is that once the emotion, and so the suggestion, came from outside: today, it comes from inside, it's all internal. Images of light that have gone leaving sediment inside me emerge in colour. Time of memory, fragments of regained moments, fruit more of imagination than reality, brought onto the canvas with more rigorous essentiality. Feeling, as stimulus for a new way of painting..." (From Renato Bussi's notebook)

  • "...is the free visual expression of a remembered space - not necessarily faithful to a past world – rather a narrating light and colour of things – moments emotions sensations – indelible and alive in the intimate shapes of memory. Fragments of time that live with us, not in a static but in a dynamic way, integral part of our ego in continuous evolution" (From Renato Bussi's notebook)

Renato Bussi's pictorial work goes from 1946 to 1999. The painting shown in this web site are only a minimum evidence of his vast artistic activity. The works are presented in four separate artistical periods, for an easier exhibition.