Gigi Rigamonti has enough of a sense of humor to recognize, in his own last name, the existential condition that relentlessly defines him, forever prey to the dialogue between concreteness and intention.
The last name Rigamonti translates as "line" (riga) and "mountains" (monti). These two elements are so conflicted as to generate worlds in which human beings would have been able to live sound in the knowledge that line and mountain are a part of each other, indeed, made for each other. Line and mountain only attain completeness togheter since they cannot occur without each other.
Rigamonti in his paintings, as we rarely find elsewhere, demonstrates that humor is tragic in nature, signaling a moment of absolute autonomy from poetry and above all a revolt of the spirit and the subconscious against the conditions imposed by society and life.