Blueseries – Ercole by Silvio Porzionato
Silvio Porzionato pays homage to the masterpieces of the great masters of classical art that have guided his path as an artist.
Considered one of the most admirable heroes of antiquity, Heracles or Hercules became an object of worship in Greece, Magna Graecia and Rome.
His figure has posed several problems for investigation: firstly, whether he should be counted among the gods or among the heroes. This is certainly one of the most fascinating aspects, which prompted the artist to emulate one of the most enigmatic mythological personalities on his canvases.
Source: National Geographic
“Two snakes slither between the cradles of little Heracles and Iphicles, sons of the beautiful queen of Tiryns, Alcmena. A queen so beautiful and charming that nine months earlier Zeus, in the guise of her absent husband Amphitryon, tricked her into joining him, impregnating her with Heracles. After returning from war, Amphitryon also lay with his lawful wife, and together they procreated Iphicles, the twin half-brother of the great Greek hero. Now the two children sleep peacefully, but the jealous Hera, wife of Zeus, has hatched a trap to kill yet another son of the faithless bridegroom: two reptiles, which will wrap Heracles in their coils until they suffocate him. During the night the commotion wakes Amphitryon and Alcmena: the slaves have noticed the two snakes and scream at the top of their voices. As soon as the parents rush into the room, they find an incredible surprise before their eyes. Heracles clutches the two reptiles in his hands: he has asphyxiated them with his childlike strength. Here is the first feat of one of the most beloved and revered heroes of antiquity.”
The bust from which the artist took inspiration is that of Hector Farnese, taken from the colossal statue in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. The famous marble sculpture, from the Severan period, is the work of Glycon and a copy of a bronze original by Lysippus from the 4th century BC. It was found in Rome at the Baths of Caracalla around 1546 and a few years later entered the Farnese Collection from which it takes its name.
Ercole by Silvio Porzionato: https://www.rossettiartecontemporanea.it/opera/ercole-blueseries/
Deep into blue – the BLUESERIES
In his newest series, titled “BLUESERIES,” for the first time Silvio Porzionato pays homage to the classic icons and subjects that have shaped and inspired his journey as an artist.
Inspiration was born between the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Vatican Museums: initially attracted by busts and statues of minor figures, the artist continued the pictorial cycle by focusing his path with a work of figurative and conceptual interpretation of the most important pictorial works of all time.
“BLUESERIES” represents an ode to the beauty and complexity of art, both ancient and contemporary, to the power of imagination and art’s ability to inspire and transform. The artist skillfully weaves personal elements of contemporary figuration into abstractionism and, conceptually, even cubism. First and foremost, he enacts a profound reflection on the continuity of art through the centuries and the relentless search for new forms of expression.
The common thread of this series is blue, specifically cyan, charged and intense. Blue has always taken on multiple meanings: it is depth, it is infinite, it is an inner, soul-telling color. For Vassili Kandinsky, blue represented man’s impulse to search for his inner nature.
