Castagna Maurizio 1961 - XL - Inner Cosmos

Maurizio Castagna – Inner Cosmos
Unique Artwork – Mixed media on canvas
Original work by the Italian artist Maurizio Castagna, exponent of a painting research that combines the tradition of European gestural abstraction with the energy of American Action Painting.
Trained at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, Castagna began his artistic path with figurative painting and portraiture, completing important commissions for several Italian episcopal sees, including the monumental painting of the Stoning of Saint Stephen (350 x 220 cm) placed behind the altar of the Sisters Stefanine church in Asti and official portraits of bishops for the dioceses of Asti, Catania and Caltanissetta.
During his artistic evolution, the author developed an abstract and gestural language based on the layering of material and the energy of the gesture. His works are built through overlays of pigments, egg tempera, acrylics, enamels and resins elaborated by the artist, creating surfaces rich in depth in which the paint layers remain visible and dialogue with each other.
His research engages with the great tradition of international abstraction, evoking artists such as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning and Sam Francis, whom Castagna had the opportunity to know personally, as well as postwar Italian abstract painting.
The work Inner Cosmos arises from a state of deep concentration and inner serenity experienced by the artist during the creative process. In painting, Castagna experiments with a condition of inner peace and total immersion in the present, detaching from material concerns and letting the painting gesture become a direct expression of a profound balance.
Radial marks, luminous chromatic fields and dynamic tensions evoke a kind of energetic universe or inner cosmos, where color, matter and gesture combine in a vibrant and meditative composition.
As curator Okwui Enwezor noted, Castagna’s painting does not represent an objective or subjective reality, but frees an inner tension through the painting gesture, transforming the canvas into a space of energy, emotion and suggestion.
Maurizio Castagna’s works are present in public and private collections in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia and have been published in important art catalogs and magazines including Bolaffi and the Catalogo d’Arte Moderna Italiana – Giorgio Mondadori Editore.
Unique work.
Hand-signed on the front and back.
Accompanied by the artist’s certificate of authenticity.
A work that synthesizes Castagna’s long painting experience and his exploration of gesture, matter and the inner universe, destined for collectors interested in contemporary European abstract painting.