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Introduction to Nes Lerpa by Debora Ferrari, Art Critic and Director of the Museum of Modern Art, Chiostro di Voltorre, Varese, Italy:

Nes Lerpa has always been fascinated by and drawn to the honesty of informal surrealistic painting, which is based primarily on the automatic nature of movement. Yet Lerpa has never wished to stop at the seemingly mechanical notion of painting as a pure impulse that the hand transfers to the canvas, preferring instead to cultivate the almost magical dimension of art - in which the artist is a medium that can give voice to new worlds, link separate worlds together, produce assonances, create visions and set off explosions of emotion. Right from the start of his life as an artist, Lerpa positioned himself in the artistic landscape of a changing Europe. Starting with his father's work, he moved upwards to take on international contemporary art, which he has engaged with a fresh perspective stemming from the informal tradition of the 1960s, on which his own generation continued to build.

Nes Lerpa immediately chose colours and the grand scale as his tools - a choice that is closely linked to an inherent distinguishing feature of his work: travel. Travel is a dimension that manages to unite time and space, and to carry memories transformed into visions. Nes Lerpa is a travelling painter, a Romantic of the Third Millennium, whose artistic experience helps him to produce a synthesis of soul and matter, of the classical and the experimental, of introspection and expression.