Roberto Mauri (1977) - Silenzio in Rosso e Ciano

Title: Silence in Red and Cyan

In this work, Roberto Mauri builds a landscape with strong visual and emotional impact, based on an extraordinary chromatic contrast. The composition is dominated by a overwhelming field of scarlet red that invades the left portion of the canvas, evoking a burning shoreline or a sea of poppies. This note of pure color breaks and granulates toward the right, penetrating a sheet of water with gray and silvery tones.

At the center of the scene emerges a solitary rural dwelling: the whitewashed façade is crowned by a bright turquoise roof, a real visual fulcrum that balances the energetic thrust of the red beneath. In the background, a misty and muffled atmosphere envelops the essential shapes of bare trees and of small boats moored along the shore.

Mauri plays with great mastery the alternation between the uniform application of color, tactile spatula strokes in the foreground, and faded veils in the sky. The sharp contrast between the acidic palette of turquoise and red with the monochromatic tones of the lakeside landscape gives the work an aura of suspended quiet and dreamlike suggestion.