Pio Serafini (1951) - Il Chiostro

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Pio Serafini (1951-Italy)
il Chiostro - No. Archivio 89MP24
Oil on canvas
Signed,
Authenticated on the back
Certificate of Authenticity
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, beyond often choosing the Piceno territory as the preferred subject of his work, he is also the custodian of a painterly tradition typically of Ascoli: together with an evident influence of the finest French post-impressionist painting, from Cezanne to Chagall, Serafini's work sits in the wake of the illustrious Ascoli painters Dino Ferrari and Ernesto Ercolani, a starting point for a most original interior deformation of the visual element. The search for environments, typically silent and devoid of human presence, is always an inner search, which inclines urban conglomerates and the fields, the mountains and the skies, as if the wave of memory and recollections breaks upon reality itself, bending it, making its evanescent contours and distinctive traits. The color, which captures and draws the gaze into the composition, is also expressive, often anti-naturalistic, with hues sometimes bright sometimes dark, 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 still and solitary towers like metaphysical relics; and then the animals of the still-living 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 bright colors, a true "trait d'union" between tradition, emotional intensity and compositional dynamism.