Kino Mistral (1943) - Venezia, Riflessi in Laguna

Author

Kino Mistral (1943), Italian painter. Born in Milan, where he graduated in architecture, he attended Andy Warhol's Factory in New York.

He has had numerous solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including at the Art Domus Gallery in Argentario, the Terme Gallery in Saturnia, Arte Europa 2000 in Reggio Emilia, Miart, Esposizione di Gallerie in Milan, the Artemania Gallery in Modena, Reggio in Arte, Reggio Emilia, the International Expo, and Bologna. Kino Mistral is highly innovative. He has found his own personal method of artistic expression by renewing traditional iconographic structures, while simultaneously building a solid figurative structure that denies nothing to reality, which, through these new mediums, has become at times mythical and visionary, and at other times powerfully real.

Imbued with an internationally renowned experience, from American Pop Art to German Expressionism, it is the intense, artificial fluorescence that seems to draw him, giving a metallic yet powerful effect to human features, objects, urban landscapes, and the harsh twists of mechanical and architectural structures. A profound unity binds Mistral's paintings together: different voices of a single visual symphony of lines and colors that, dense and compact, spread across the canvases, sometimes quietly merging into one another, sometimes clashing with dramatic impact, only apparently dominated by the clear, precise contours of rigorously geometric forms.

His works are held in galleries and private collections in Italy, Germany, London, Budapest, Madrid, Vienna, the Italian Embassy in the United States in Washington D.C., and the San Diego Gallery. He is cited in several publications, including Mondadori Arte Contemporanea, Art America, and Flash Art.

Description

"Venice, Reflections in the Lagoon," oil on canvas, 44*59cm with frame, 35*50cm canvas only, signed lower right, datable to the 1980s. Title, signature, and artist's stamps on the back.

The scene opens on a Venetian landscape, where palaces line the water, revealing their Gothic arches inlaid in marble, their arches, balustrades, and windows. Along the shore, a neat row of gondolas, each with its own distinctive and elegant profile, moored to the characteristic wooden poles with spiral decorations. The play of reflections is triggered on the surface of the water, the facades and colors of the buildings blend with those of the boats, and the water ripples slightly, creating sinuous lines that overlap and interpenetrate each other in a marvelous play of colors.

A dreamlike quality pervades the painting; the volumes possess an unnatural lightness, a golden light that strikes the objects and binds them into a single, dreamlike dimension. The composition is rich and refined, based on a balanced interplay of diagonals that gives character and dynamism to the scene. The brushstrokes are loose and graceful; the artist seems to be seeking a use of oil that reproduces the transparency and glaze effects of watercolor, a feat he has fully achieved. A painting of beautiful technique and craftsmanship, the aesthetic impact is pleasing and refined.

Condition Report

Excellent overall condition, the work is intact throughout, with vivid, legible colors. The frame is complimentary.

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