It's nice to see Luciano Tulipani working on his paintings. Locked in his old studio, in the oldest part of the city-he trickles-in silence, his colours and his effects with the patience of an artisan of the former times. Along the walls or along the stairs, we are hit by the tens, hundreds ways he uses to paint, tens hundreds, thousand, but all equally proper and felt, all with the same passion applied and experimented to the bottom. Only who knows him to the bottom or the ones with the patience to watch carefully what, even if at a very young age, he produced are able, beyond the apparent differences, to discover the common priming which links all his canvas. The colour used first to weave a careful plot almost geometric, and the colour upon again constitutes an element of total dissonance and extraordinary chromatic –ring-. All his paintings, from the abstract to the still-life, from the landscape or to the grotesque and mocking portrait, follow the same technique and they are index of his constant research. Research, that at the end, for those who know as well the town, that part of Spoleto that before was told to hit for the affinities which lay there with the chipped plasters' woofs, with the old graffiti, with the lichenous moulds of the ancient masonries from which, wisely, he' s used to draw inspiration and on which he grafts his own chromatic signs. For this research rigour, Luciano may represents one of the continuers of the Spoleto's School of the fifties. Spoleto, 29 Febbraio 1980 Arch. Giuliano Macchia