Robert Pan – Eden

Robert Pan began his collaboration with the Goethe Gallery in Bolzano in 2000. He is now presenting his fifth solo exhibition. The Goethe Gallery exhibition is the beginning of a great success story for Robert Pan. […]
Pan's works now move beyond any figurativism, even if the cosmos, in the broadest sense, still constitutes a real point of reference. Pan's chromatic dreams do not refer to a reality, they are concrete, abstract and spiritual, as well as color in its materiality and in its spirituality. Pan has arrived in the Garden of Eden.
About his work, Robert Pan says he is actually a sculptor, not a painter. Hence also the desire to occupy space in a fundamentally different way.
In Pan's work the unknown is a goal of the work. His attention is directed to the image research process, which is guided by the shaping force of the artist and by the use of the material. The artistic process is not spontaneous, but intuitive. What interests him is a thoughtful giving birth. He approaches the work thoughtfully, letting his creative imagination run wild. It is far from an ordering mentality, as in the Impressionists, whose gaze stopped at the threshold of the visible. Pan creates his own world of experiences, behind the evident world he seeks a broader artistic concept, a subjective-intuitive-psychological-spiritual concept. The artist's spiritual overabundance is discharged from the monumental passion, pouring with colors and shapes, lights and shadows.
Robert Pan's work is governed by his sensitivity for psychological and atmospheric suggestions which in the past were expressed in religious symbology and which today are manifested through a luminous abstract language. Pan's works also always contain a spiritual dimension, they have a contemplative silence and a charm and convey a feeling of enchantment.
Based on the text by Alberto Mattia Martini