Pio Serafini (1951) - Abstract 13

Pio Serafini (1951–Italy
Archived at no. 96MP 24
Acrylics and oil on canvas
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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 preferred subject of his work, he is also the bearer of a painting tradition typical of Ascoli: together with an evident influence from the best French post-impressionist painting, from Cezanne to Chagall, Serafini’s work follows in the wake of the 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 fields, the mountains and the skies, as if the wave of memory and recollections were breaking upon reality itself, bending it, rendering its contours and distinctive features 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 of 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-lively rural tradition, among which the rooster stands out, a recurring element of 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.