Pio Serafini (1951) - Abstract 13

Pio Serafini (1951-AP. Italia
Archived at no. 96MP 24
Acrylics and oil on canvas
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Pio Serafini was born in 1951 in Ascoli Piceno; he is an architect, musician, and painter. He is so in the deepest sense of the term because, in addition to often choosing the Piceno territory as the subject of his work, he is also the custodian of a painting tradition typically associated with Ascoli: together with an evident influence from the best French post-impressionist painting, from Cezanne to Chagall, Serafini’s work lies in the lineage of illustrious Ascoli painters Dino Ferrari and Ernesto Ercolani, a starting point for a deeply personal inner deformation of the visual element. The exploration of environments, typically silent and devoid of human presence, is always an inner search, which inclines urban agglomerations and the countryside, the mountains and the skies, as if the wave of memory and recollection were to crash against reality itself, bending it and rendering its contours and distinctive traits evanescent. The color, which captures and pulls the gaze into the composition, is also expressive—often anti-naturalistic—ranging from bright to sombre tones, capable of condensing light into the volumes of the depicted subjects: the Marche landscapes, with fields that become tapestries woven from the textures of the different crops, but also the city of Ascoli, with its typical immovable and solitary towers like metaphysical relics; and then the animals of the still-vivid rural tradition, among which the rooster stands out, a recurring element in his production, treated in an almost futurist manner, a convergence and explosion of dynamic lines and twinkling colors, a true "trait d’union" between tradition, emotional intensity, and compositional dynamism.