SANFILIPPO - IL ponte

The bridge is an oil painting on canvas, 100 × 150 cm, in which the painting is structured like a mental and emotional map. The abstract composition evokes an organic fabric, a direct allusion to the morphology of the city of Venice, a place of long residence for the artist and a fundamental matrix of his research.
The image does not depict, but evokes: from memory emerges a fragment of the lagoon city seen from above, reorganized according to an organic and pulsating principle. The pictorial surface behaves like a living organism, in which reds, blacks, blues, yellows, and ochres create a dense and layered chromatic rhythm, evocative of a lived time, of a collective and festive experience that traverses fields, calli, and canals.
At the center of the composition stands the bridge, an essential and symbolic black sign that takes on the value of an archetype: an element of connection, passage, and relationship, capable of uniting spaces, times, and seemingly separate emotional dimensions. The bridge thus becomes the visual and conceptual focal point of the work, a place of tension and synthesis.
The artist performs a transfiguration of memory, transforming remembrance into pictorial matter. Color and form do not illustrate but activate an emotional resonance that returns a moment of happy life, filtered through time and brought back to a universal dimension.
The work is completed by a minimal frame made of wooden slats, which preserves the essentiality of the piece without interfering with the expressive strength of the surface.
On the back of the canvas, there is the certificate of authenticity; the author's signature is located at the bottom right.