Pio Serafini (1951) - Mucche

Oil and acrylic on canvas by artist Pio di Serafini (1951 - AP. Italy)
Signed on the front, bottom
Authenticated No. 50DM 23
Certificate of authenticity
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Pio SERAFINI was born in 1951 in Ascoli Piceno. He is an architect, musician, and painter—in the deepest sense of the term—because, in addition to frequently selecting the Piceno territory as the favored subject of his work, he is also the custodian of a painting tradition typically from Ascoli: alongside an evident influence of the finest post-impressionist French painting, from Cezanne to Chagall, Serafini’s work follows in the footsteps of illustrious Ascoli painters Dino Ferrari and Ernesto Ercolani. This serves as a starting point for a uniquely interior deformation of the visual element. His exploration of environments—typically silent, devoid of human presence—is always an inward search, tilting urban agglomerations and the countryside, the mountains and the skies, as if the wave of memory and recollection crashes against reality itself, bending it and rendering its contours and distinctive traits evanescent. The color, which captures and draws the viewer’s gaze into the composition, is also expressive, often anti-naturalistic, with hues that are sometimes bright, sometimes somber, capable of condensing light into the volumes of the depicted subjects: the Marche landscapes, with fields that become tapestries woven from the “stoffe” of various crops; but also the city of Ascoli, with its typical still 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 of his production, treated in a quasi-futurist manner—convergence and explosion of dynamic lines and vivid colors, a true “trait d’union” between tradition, emotional intensity, and dynamic composition.