"In the empty blue sky, the dreamer finds sense in blue feelings, intuitive clarity, the joy of clarity in his feelings, acts and thoughts. The aerial Narcissus looks at himself in the blue sky."
Gaston Bachelard
Alexandra Battezzati is a french paintress born in 1980, she lives and works in Nice.
Alexandra Battezzati's paintings immerse us in the impalpable world of dreams. She offers visions that invite us beyond usual limits of perception, confronting us with the incommensurable sky, the depth of the cosmos, the calming expanse of sea horizons, and the powerful energy of trees.
Alexandra Battezzati draws her primary inspiration from her native city, Nice, from where she conveys light and landscapes open to the infinity of sea and sky. Her paintings are not merely realistic descriptions, however, as everything is about imagination, suggestion, escape. Meticulously executed, using a very subtle range of colors, a soothing atmosphere pervades her paintings, also achieved with soft clarity of light and intensely deep blues.
Trees occupy a particular place in Alexandra Battezzati's pictures. The artist often likes to depict a single tree in the centre of the composition, anchoring the gaze and linking sky and earth, sea and sky, unless the tree is taking to the air, above the clouds, to the infinity of the universe. Surging with energy, the tree, endowed by the artist with a myriad of colours, fully embodies life, fertility, and vital energy.
The metaphysical aspect that emanates from Alexandra Battezzati's paintings, evoking the surrealism of Magritte and Dalí, is an authentic invitation to meditate. Looking at them brings to mind lines written by Gaston Bachelard in his essay Air and Dreams: "In the empty blue sky, the dreamer finds sense in 'blue feelings, intuitive clarity, the joy of clarity in his feelings, acts and thoughts. The aerial Narcissus looks at himself in the blue sky."
