Rhythm and tone artist. Dance and painting works of David Garibaldi (David Garibaldi)

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Last year's performance David Garibaldi on the national TV show " America`s Got Talent"made a splash not only in the United States, but in all corners of the world, where the fame of his extraordinary talent has sunk. In a matter of minutes, wielding both hands with tassels clutched in them, David creates a portrait of a musician, actor, politician or other celebrity directly in front of the amazed audience. And all this - dancing to rhythmic music and "incendiary" communicating with the audience. David Garibaldi calls his paintings CMYKs's, and myself - rhythm and tone artist … To date, he is the only one who was able to combine in this form three types of art at once: dance, music and painting. And the only artist who arranges concerts that gather full halls of fans of expressive performances of an unusual artist. What happens on the stage makes the audience burst into applause and enthusiastic shouts every time. The dancing artist leaves dots, spots and lines on the canvas, made by careless movements of either the left or the right hand. And sometimes it gives out dizzying "pas" to the delight of the audience. Imperceptibly, in just six to eight minutes, careless lines take on meaning and turn into large-scale paintings.

Usually the artist draws a portrait of the performer, to whose music he has just danced on stage. But sometimes an instrumental composition, a DJ mix or a potpourri in modern processing sounds, and then David Garibaldi depicts another celebrity, or an invented fairy-tale character, a recognizable landmark … And once, on the air of one of the American TV channels, he painted a picture depicting Jesus Christ. Talking about his work, the dancing artist often repeats that he never knows in advance what his next picture will look like. Even if it's a portrait. The artist claims that he is "guided" by the rhythms of the sounding music, and it depends on them whether he will apply paint with wide sloppy strokes, or write out details with thin lines, cover the finished portrait with colorful splashes, or emphasize its contours with a contrasting color. The main artist here is music, Garibaldi believes, and he himself is only a mediator between it and painting.

In the expressive painting of the dancing artist, art critics see similarities with the paintings of Andy Warhol, and some compare them to the murals that can be seen on the outskirts of New York. One way or another, the talent of David Garibaldi received national recognition, and a joint tour with the legendary Blue Man Group, with which the artists swept across the United States and Canada, will only confirm the above. You can see the dancing artist in action on a video from a TV show, or on David Garibaldi's personal video channel.