REZIN ART
Arte Originale

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A collaboration of work by Robert Cauzzo & Brigitte Dawson

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As a son of migrant Italian parents, Robert Cauzzo did his artistic apprenticeship in the urban landscapes of outer eastern Melbourne – learning about texture, sculpture and architecture through concreting.

 

“Mistakes were masterpieces of art. I fell completely in love with resin as an expressive art form.

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In the kaleidoscope of free-flowing epoxy resin, Rob feels he is interpreting both nature and emotion. The translucent pool of deep colours reflecting so much expression and the primal power of landscape.

The epoxy resin is such a contradiction as it’s an industrial chemical that portrays a spiritual energy.

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Brigitte Dawson and Robert Cauzzo live a unique life focused on creation and creative collaboration. The raw visceral art of rob’s sits in perfect contrast along side Brigitte’s classically trained hand.

 

All my years of varied artistic training have helped me develop a style, which I describe as a mix of realism and loose expression” Most of my work focuses on the human figure and animals, human form and expressive faces along with animals in all their wonderful glory or vulnerabilities. I would love if people could appreciate and love what we have on this earth.”

 

We started to work together 15 years ago. It has taken us many years to develop a method and a way to paint with and within the epoxy resin.

I have always been fascinated with the life of the resin. Wanting to find a way that made the subject look as if it’s within the resin. 

We appreciate the opposites of what and who we are. The chemical industrialism and the classical realism.

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Our art is paradoxical by nature. It both reflects the past and creates the future. Maybe that’s what we as humans do reflect and create.

Maybe that’s why we need art so badly

 

The reason for the paintings we are doing at the moment are basically an evolution.

We started with the Asian themes as Rob is passionate about ancient Japanese art and culture, We had seen some rock art and art on furniture that inspired us to explore painting on his epoxy art as if it was part of the material itself. 

This led us to explore my favourite subject renaissance art, especially sculpture. To make the resin look 3D and as if it was sculptured. I was so excited by how I could work with the paint on the resin, I felt like I was sculpting the panel.  

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The subject theme using animals is something close to both our hearts. We would love people to appreciate the wonder and beauty of the animals we have on our earth