Pio Serafini (1951) - Abstract

Oil on Canvas by Pio di Serafini (1951-AP. Italy
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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 from Ascoli: together with an evident influence of the best Post-Impressionist French painting, from Cézanne to Chagall, Serafini’s work sits in the lineage 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 inner quest, which tilts urban agglomerations and the countryside, the mountains and the skies, as if the wave of memory and recollections crashes against reality itself, bending it, rendering evanescent its contours and distinctive traits. The color, which captures and drags 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 that becomes tapestries composed of the “stoffe” of 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-vivid peasant 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 vibrant colors, a true “trait d’union” between tradition, emotional intensity and compositional dynamism.