Pio Serafini (1951) - Mucche

Canvas painting by artist Pio di Serafini (1951-AP. Italy)
Acrylics and oil on canvas
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. He is, in the deepest sense of the term, because, in addition to often choosing the Piceno area as the preferred subject of his work, he is also the custodian of a painting tradition typically rooted in Ascoli: together with a evident influence of the best French post-impressionist 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 an 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 agglomerations and the fields, the mountains and the skies, as if the wave of memory and recollections crashed against reality itself, bending it, rendering its contours and distinctive traits evanescent. The color, which captures and drags the eye into the composition, is also expressive, often anti-naturalistic, with tones sometimes bright sometimes dark, capable of condensing light into the volumes of the depicted subjects: the Marche landscapes, with the countryside becoming tapestries composed from the "stoffe" of the different crops, but also the city of Ascoli, with its typical immobile 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 in his production, treated in a nearly futurist manner, a convergence and explosion of dynamic lines and brilliant colors, a true "trait d'union" between tradition, emotional intensity, and compositional dynamism.