L'arte incontra la cucina
La Chef Visionario
Astrattismo in Cucina?
Raffaele Buonaiuto
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Raffaele Buonaiuto |
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Wassily Kandinsky |
tutti soprattutto a livello qualitativo; le
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Raffaele Buonaiuto |
Chi di noi, io per prima trovandomi di fronte ad un piatto esteticamente, bello non desidera condividerlo sui social.
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Raffaele Buonaiuto |
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Wassily Kandinsky |
La correlazione tra colorismo utilizzato nella disposizione del cibo sul piatto rinvia ad un approccio al colore che Kandinskij traeva dall’ascolto della musica. Quest’ultima in quanto astratta, lascia esprimere le emozioni in modo diretto. Se nel primo “Il Lohengrin” di Wagner è la fonte ispiratrice, in Buonaiuto, figlio del suo tempo, è la musica House francese e tedesca, le migliori a suo dire, a favorire l’esaltazione della sua passione e gesto istintivo. Un indiscutibile istinto cromatico mediato tuttavia dalla ratio e dall’equilibrio va ad aggiungersi alla realizzazione dei suoi piatti.
Raffaele Buonaiuto’s culinary art, in its multiple forms, represents the primal longing of mankind to communicate his male essence and way of being.
The world of images aids comprehension of culinary evolution together with cultural anthropology. Reflecting on mankind’s early rock graffiti, it is possible to understand customs and traditions of primitive populations in the absence of written texts.
Today more than ever, there is a need to extract that visual feeling which comes from the eyes through the soul and expands boundaries through the all the senses tout court.
Worldly Cuisine has become an essential component to all this for it is a forever part of our cultural and traditional patrimony. Today it is presented in a new fashion thanks to the cultural mix to which we are all exposed but especially due when totally opposite cultures meet and determine peculiar new influences in a multiethnic society known as the melting pot.
Comparing Wassily Kandinsky, a deviant point even if not too much from the subject which I generally occupy myself at work, happens to be a casual but interesting meeting with a chef who I define to be a minimalist artist.
I’m referring to Raffaele Buonaiuto.
Raffaele Buonaiuto’s television trasmissions have carecterized a high end cuisine, thus promulgating a new mode of eating while teaching health in primis and at the same time, giving valuing Italian excellance.
Dish tasting continues to be forevermore accompanied by the esthetic contemplation dominated by food porn.
Who among us, including me, when finding an esthetically enticing dish, does not wish to share it on social media.
Raffaele Buonaiuto’s origins are from Campania. It’s here where his “insane” passion for cooking is born and compels him since childhood to cook his first dishes while looking at his mother and grandmother, and deciding to study culinary arts at hotel schools.
But all this was not enough. As a curious avid young man, he travels the world acquiring Japanese and international cuisine techniques, la mise en place which renders his dishes personal and true works of art.
This is where I digress and cuisine meets my line of work.
In Buonaiuto’s dishes, we find art seemingly extracted from a great World and European master from the NineHundred century, combined with excellent ingredients.
In his cuisine, it is also possible to see, even if subconsciously, traces of masters of contemporary art. Thus, I cannot help myself in not referring to the father of Abstractism, Wassily Kandinsky.
Tra Raffaele Buonaiuto e Wassily Kandinsky, there is a correlation of colors utilized in the dish presentation, colors which Kandinsky claimed to extract from listening to music.
This last color extraction appears to directly express
emotions. If Wagner’s first “Il Lohengrin” is the source of
inspiration,
then according to Buonaiuto, it is the best French and
German House music which exhalted his instincts and passions. In
realizing his dishes, there is a chrome instinct mediated by ratio and
equilibrium.
Fish, the main character, is barely cooked and is accompanied by veggies or tips of edible flowers.
A minimalist and colorful cuisine, which pins itself on less being more, delivers to its spectators and tasters an esthetic vision which is as much from a chef as from an artist.
Acting upon secondary instinctual creative waves, Buonaiuto, undoubtedly asian influenced ratios, guarantee an absolute grand and harmonic final effect.
Article Translated in English by
Margherita Law, Los Angeles Lawyer and Food Porn Critic.
July 13, 2020
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