Trevisan Carlo - Perefante

In this painting titled "Perefante", Trevisan pushes his game of metamorphosis toward a perfect fusion of the plant and animal kingdoms, creating a visual hybrid that challenges immediate perception with grace and irony.
The work presents a solitary creature portrayed from behind, an entity that fuses the delicacy of a fruit with the majestic bulk of a pachyderm.
Trevisan plays with the plastic affinity between the pear's teardrop shape and the elephant's rear mass. The granular texture of the fruit's skin subtly morphs into the elephant's rough hide, while the stem, complete with a vibrant green leaf, acts as an improbable "antenna" or natural crown.
The creature is caught in a moment of movement, a slow step that suggests a precise direction toward the horizon. This posture lends the "perefante" a nearly solemn dignity, turning a visual wordplay into a character endowed with its own inner poetics.
Apart from the blue skies that characterize many of his other works (such as "Cinciallegra" or "Vespa Bianca"), here the artist chooses a palette of warm tones, ochre and browns. This choice still grounds the creature to the earth, making its mass and the heat of the metaphysical desert it traverses almost tangible.
With this work, Trevisan explores the concept of “fluid identity.” The technical mastery in the use of oil on canvas allows him to render the absurd credible: light shapes the volumes with such precision that the natural union between the fragility of a fruit and the strength of an elephant seems natural.
"Perefante" is an invitation to look beyond appearances, suggesting that nature is an infinite vocabulary where every form can slide into another if observed with the eyes of the imagination.

Oil painting on canvas mounted with a white passe-partout, 46 × 46 cm, and a faesite panel.