Pio Serafini (1951) - Mucche

Oil painting on canvas by artist Pio di Serafini (1951-Italy)
Acrylics and oil on canvas
Signed on the front at the bottom
Authenticity 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, besides 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 a clear influence of the best French post-impressionist painting, from Cézanne to Chagall, Serafini’s work lies in the tradition of the illustrious Ascoli painters Dino Ferrari and Ernesto Ercolani, the 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 search, one that leans toward urban conglomerates and countryside, the mountains and the skies, as if the wave of memory and recollection crashed against reality itself, bending it, rendering its contours and distinctive traits evanescent. The color, which captures and draws the eye into the composition, is also expressive, often anti-naturalistic, with tones that are sometimes bright, sometimes somber, capable of condensing light into the volumes of the depicted subjects: the Marche landscapes, with the fields that become tapestries composed of the “stuffs” 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 living peasant tradition, among which the rooster stands out, a recurring element in his production, treated in a quasi-futuristic manner, a convergence and explosion of dynamic lines and vivid colors, true a "trait d’union" between tradition, emotional intensity, and compositional dynamism.