The Path to the Hermitage
The descriptive accuracy of the leaves and rocks in the foreground competes with the analogical precision of Dürer and Mantegna. The artist’s interest in masters of the past includes also the spiritual inspiration of the Romantics, from whom he seems to have borrowed the theme of a steep path that,
Harvest on the Hill
A synthetic, severe presentation of farm work in which the human presence is cancelled out, while the cypress trees stand guard over the vast fertile fields as they have for centuries. Only a stepladder seems to hint at the laborious work of the farmers to reach and tame the manifestations
On the Hill
In the synthesis of this sculpture Bimbi gathers together symbolic elements of the land of his birth, evoking the characteristics of the Maremman landscape with its slender cypress trees and humble houses built on rocky slopes and cliffs, buffeted by winds in every season.
Four Meagre Cypresses
A symbol of Tuscany and Maremma, cypress trees represent the Etruscan soul of a harsh and austere land. In Bimbi’s work the cypresses huddle together in fright, expressing human-like feelings of dismay and fear in the face of the violence of natural forces.
Water over the Precipice
A grand vision of a waterfall near a house not much lower than the rock from which the water plunges down. The severity of the monochrome accentuates the essentiality of the description and evokes the fierce pride of towns in Maremma built on tufa outcroppings as though on a dare.
Three Steps from There
In the ample space of the sheet, Bimbi presents the austere vision of a ruin surrounded by shadows and barriers impeding access, seemingly to indicate modern man difficulty in reconnecting with history and the past, even when these are still recent.
The Blue Hour
In the blue hour before the dawn, myriad flames of light flicker through the night, rippling the silent surfaces and arousing a tremor of life, emanation of cosmic energy.
Slopes of Mount Amiata
The large size of this painting lends drama to the condemnation of abandonment and neglect of the natural space, where all vegetation and trace of human presence have disappeared. In this larval apparition of a mountain landscape the protagonists are the consumption and annihilation of life. The paint is mixed
Prato Ranieri
A tourist site in Maremma is envisioned as a landscape of the soul, a vision in indigo and pink weathered and washed by the tormented passage of time.
Party on a Rainy Friday
The figures moving about in the green shade of the woods on a rainy afternoon look like ectoplasms swallowed up by the complex life of nature, ready to become wills-o’-the-wisp similar to the mysterious lights, almost like magic fireflies, twinkling in the grass and amidst the wet branches.
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