Pio Serafini (1951) - Cipressi

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Oil painting on canvas by the artist Pio di Serafini (1951-Italy)
Acrylics and mixed media on canvas
Signed,
Authenticated with a 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, in addition to often choosing the Piceno area as the favored subject of his work, he is also the keeper of a painting tradition typically associated with Ascoli: together with an evident influence of the best French post-impressionist painting, from Cézanne to Chagall, Serafini’s work fits into the path of illustrious Ascoli painters Dino Ferrari and Ernesto Ercolani, a starting point for a highly original inner deformation of the visual element. His exploration of environments, typically silent and devoid of human presence, is always an inner search, which tilts urban conglomerates and the countryside, the mountains and the skies, as if the wave of memory and recollections breaks against reality itself, bending it and rendering its contours and distinctive features evanescent. The color, which captures and carries the eye into the composition, is also expressive, often anti-naturalistic, with tones that are sometimes bright and sometimes dark, capable of condensing light into the volumes of the depicted subjects: the Marche landscapes, with fields that become tapestries made from the “threads” of different crops, but also the city of Ascoli, with its typical immobile and solitary towers like metaphysical relics; and then the animals of an still-living rural tradition, among which the rooster stands out, a recurring element of his production, treated in a nearly futurist manner, a convergence and explosion of dynamic lines and bright colors, the true “trait d’union” between tradition, emotional intensity and compositional dynamism.