google+search+images+refugees+boats, 2016

Most of Luca Bertolo’s paintings developed within his series, often carried out over a long span of time and never definitively completed. The roundish blocks of colour, for example, are recurring formal elements in his production, which appeared for the first time in his Specie Specifiche and Grammatiche from his debut period, and then again in another group from 2007 titled Proof, and lastly in his recent works of Divisionist inspiration. The series is liberating not only because it frees the artist from judgment of a single, conclusive and definitive work, but also and above all because it affords him the opportunity to experiment with all the possible variations of the same motif. [...]