Pio Serafini (1951) - il Lago di Castreccioni

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Oil painting on canvas by the artist Pio di Serafini (born 1951, Italy)
"Il Lago di Sastreccioni"
Acrylics and mixed media on canvas
Signed,
Authenticated on the back
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 a painter in the deepest sense of the term, because, in addition to often electing the Piceno territory as the subject of his work, he is also the custodian of a painting tradition typical of Ascoli: together with an evident influence from the best French post-impressionist painting, from Cézanne to Chagall, Serafini’s work lies in the line of illustrious Ascoli painters Dino Ferrari and Ernesto Ercolani, a starting point for a uniquely internal deformation of the visual element. The exploration of environments, typically silent and devoid of human presence, is always an inward search, tilting urban agglomerations and the fields, the mountains and the skies, as if the wave of memory and recollection breaks upon reality itself, bending it, rendering its contours and distinctive traits evanescent. The color, which captures and draws the gaze into the composition, is also expressive, often anti-naturalistic, with hues sometimes vivid, 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 immobilized and solitary towers like metaphysical relics; and then the animals of the still-living peasant tradition, among which the rooster stands out, a recurring element in his production, treated in a quasi-futurist manner, a convergence and explosion of dynamic lines and bright colors, a true “trait d’union” between tradition, emotional intensity, and compositional dynamism.