Le Pays Qui te Ressemble

About Le Pays Qui te Ressemble

This lyrical, colourful abstract painting is by Canadian visual artist Richard Tosczak- one in a series created in collaboration with an Italian artist, Angela Letizia Renzi, a lover of literature and linguistics. In this dynamic composition, expressive, gestural lines and swaths of colour—yellow, green, turquoise, white, melon and brown flow across the canvas. Tosczak is perhaps best known for his beautiful bronze figurative sculptures. This painting was inspired by a poem entitled ‘L’invitation au voyage” written by C. Baudelaire, a famous French poet.
‘Au pays qui te ressemble’ means ‘the country that resembles you’. Renzi and Tosczak paint these canvases together and at the same time. Their artistic interaction is important to the works they create.

“The collaboration, which has its beginnings in the picturesque setting of lake Como, continues, more productive than ever, on an island in the heart of the Mediterranean animated by the tide, the motion of the waves, the active volcano Etna and tales of local mythology.” Tosczak and Renzi