Four Meagre Cypresses
A symbol of Tuscany and Maremma, cypress trees represent the Etruscan soul of a harsh and austere land. In Bimbi’s work the cypresses huddle together in fright, expressing human-like feelings of dismay and fear in the face of the violence of natural forces.
Water over the Precipice
A grand vision of a waterfall near a house not much lower than the rock from which the water plunges down. The severity of the monochrome accentuates the essentiality of the description and evokes the fierce pride of towns in Maremma built on tufa outcroppings as though on a dare.
Three Steps from There
In the ample space of the sheet, Bimbi presents the austere vision of a ruin surrounded by shadows and barriers impeding access, seemingly to indicate modern man difficulty in reconnecting with history and the past, even when these are still recent.
The Blue Hour
In the blue hour before the dawn, myriad flames of light flicker through the night, rippling the silent surfaces and arousing a tremor of life, emanation of cosmic energy.
Slopes of Mount Amiata
The large size of this painting lends drama to the condemnation of abandonment and neglect of the natural space, where all vegetation and trace of human presence have disappeared. In this larval apparition of a mountain landscape the protagonists are the consumption and annihilation of life. The paint is mixed
Prato Ranieri
A tourist site in Maremma is envisioned as a landscape of the soul, a vision in indigo and pink weathered and washed by the tormented passage of time.
Party on a Rainy Friday
The figures moving about in the green shade of the woods on a rainy afternoon look like ectoplasms swallowed up by the complex life of nature, ready to become wills-o’-the-wisp similar to the mysterious lights, almost like magic fireflies, twinkling in the grass and amidst the wet branches.
Cedar
The large cedar tree, solitary protagonist of the painting, loses its structural identity to become an emanation of natural energy, the expression of vital becoming, an active and unquenchable primeval force.
The Artist’s House
The characteristic vertical shape of the old houses in the villages of Maremma suggests to the painter this evocative picture from his series of “Returns.” He goes back into his ancestral home and is overcome by the memories of people now gone still hovering around their earthly home.
Arrival in Roccalbegna
As seen by an approaching traveller, the vision of Roccalbegna at evening, nestled at the foot of two steep rocky outcroppings, transforms the structure of the houses into geometric solids that oppose their rational, measured essence to the curved lines of the natural elements in a prolonged tension between opposites
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