Pio Serafini (1951) - Abstraction

Oil painting on canvas by the artist Pio di Serafini (1951-Italy)
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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 custodian 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 lies in the track 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 search, which tilts urban aggregations and fields, the mountains and the skies, as if the wave of memory and recollections crashes against reality itself, bending it, making its evanescent contours and distinctive traits. The color, which captures and draws the eye into the composition, is also expressive, often anti-naturalistic, with hues sometimes bright, sometimes somber, 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 still 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 quasi-futurist manner, convergence and explosion of dynamic lines and brilliant colors, the true "trait d’union" between tradition, emotional intensity and compositional dynamism.