Pio Serafini (1951) - Da Livio beach

Pio Serafini (1951 - Italy)
Oil on Canvas
Signed,
Authenticated on the back
Certificate of authenticity
Archive no. 52DM23
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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 of the term, because, in addition to often selecting the Piceno territory as the favorite subject of his work, he is also the keeper of a painting tradition typically associated with Ascoli: together with a evident influence of the best French Post-Impressionist painting, from Cezanne to Chagall, Serafini’s work sits in the tradition of the illustrious Ascoli painters Dino Ferrari and Ernesto Ercolani, serving as the 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 inner search, which inclines urban aggregates and fields, mountains and skies, as if the wave of memory and recollection crashes against reality itself, bending it, rendering its evanescent contours and distinctive features. The color, which catches and draws the eye into the composition, is also expressive, often anti-naturalistic, with tones sometimes bright, sometimes somber, capable of condensing light into the volumes of the depicted subjects: the Marche landscapes, with the countryside becoming tapestries composed of the “stoffe” 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 an almost futuristic manner, convergence and explosion of dynamic lines and vivid colors, true "trait d'union" between tradition, emotional intensity, and compositional dynamism.