Renata Boero

Over the years, Renata Boero, an artist with great depth who has received considerable critical attention, has executed many important series of paintings - including Specchi (Mirrors), Blu di legno (Wood Blue), Enigmi (Enigmas), Architetture (Architectures), Acquerelli di San Diego (San Diego Watercolours) and Germinazioni (Germinations) - all of which have been carefully balanced on the tightrope of research or the dizzy heights of experimentation.
The underlying structure of her work - what might be described as the grammar of her painting, recognized by all the critics and admirers of her art - is undoubtedly represented by the Cromogrammi (Chromograms), works produced from 1970 onwards and always present in her output. They are, in fact, a pictorial invention that she has neither abandoned nor concluded thanks to the semantic fullness and the countless combinatory potentialities they contain: in other words, they are a cornucopia from which, little by little, the artist judiciously allows flashes of light, echoes, tastes, pearls and perfumes to emerge.
What one is immediately aware of is the synaesthetic quality of these pictures that, still today, many years after they were painted, call to mind earth and nature.