Pio Serafini (1951) - il Chiostro

Pio Serafini (1951 - Italy
the Cloister - archive no. 89MP24
Oil on canvas
Signed,
Authenticated on the back
Certificate of Authenticity
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Pio Serafini was born in 1951 in Ascoli Piceno; he is an architect, musician, and painter. He is, in the deepest sense, because, beyond often choosing the Piceno territory as the preferred subject of his work, he is also the custodian of a painting tradition typically from Ascoli: together with an evident influence from the finest French post-Impressionist painting, from Cézanne to Chagall, Serafini’s work follows the path of illustrious Ascoli painters Dino Ferrari and Ernesto Ercolani, a starting point for a highly original inner deformation of the visual element. The exploration of environments, typically silent and devoid of human presence, is always an interior search, tilting urban agglomerations and fields, mountains and skies, as if the wave of memory and recollections broke against reality itself, bending it, rendering its contours and distinctive features evanescent. The color, which captures and draws the eye into the composition, is also expressive, often anti-naturalistic, with tones sometimes bright, sometimes dark, capable of condensing light into the volumes of the depicted subjects: the Marche landscapes, with the countryside becoming tapestries made from the fabrics of the different crops, but also the city of Ascoli, with its typical motionless and solitary towers like metaphysical relics; and then the animals of the still-vibrant rural tradition, among which the rooster stands out, a recurring element in his production, treated in a quasi-futurist manner, convergence and explosion of dynamic lines and bright colors, a true "trait d’union" between tradition, emotional intensity, and compositional dynamism.