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My name is Ugo Mainetti. I am an autodidact painter, I’m from Valtellina and I am the father of four children, two daughters and two sons. I came into the world without whimpering on May 5th, 1945 in a little district called Valle in the commune of Tartano. I was born into a peasant family of sound principles. I was the second-born son of four children. My bent for painting has revealed itself ever since I was a child. During the time I had been helping my parents in the field and upon casting a glance at my first primary school textbook, I realized that a whirling sense of dreams, emotions, and fantasies was originating in me. I expressed it through painting on and with any available material. My first painting Burnt Mountains dates back to 1957.

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Through my work I try to convey my emotional reality without figures or figurative association, and to portray the barriers between the visible and invisible worlds, as well as the nature of the struggle between light and darkness. The realization of my innermost self succeeds by means of compositional aspects with primary colors. Ranging from red to yellow, I employ a rich set of shades and a limited use of black, which serves to define the colors. Using gestural brush work, I layer single, translucent colors over one another. Sometimes as many as 150 colors, layered on top of each other, build to become the picture.

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