Roberto Ruspoli is an Italian painter who explores painting and drawing as a choreographic language, a movement suspended between ancient memory and refined modernity. Born in Lugano, he grew up in Rome, where classical influences moulded his gaze, before continuing his training at the School of Visual Arts in New York. In the artistic effervescence of New York, he met Michael Goldberg, an important figure in Abstract Expressionism, who forged his ideas about the spontaneity of gesture. After five years of experimentation, he returned to Europe, settling permanently in Paris.
His work, marked by an economy of means and formal rigour, reveals a constant dialogue between immobility and energy. In his murals and paintings on canvas, he sculpts space with fluid, instinctive lines. His encounter with choreographer Pina Bausch led him to conceive of drawing as a rhythm, a silent dance in which each line pulses with intensity.
His approach is reflected in prestigious commissions, notably for designer Fabrizio Casiraghi and the Drouant restaurant. The frescoes and canvases become fragments of an intimate mythology in which the brushstroke, both precise and vibrant, inscribes a memory in perpetual resonance with space and time. Between control and abandonment, his work explores a meditative gesture, a pictorial writing that oscillates between the ephemeral and the eternal.