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“Deep Down” by Silvio Porzionato
25 March 2021 @ 19:00 - 25 April 2021 @ 21:00

Studio Rossetti Gallery hosts, for the first time in Genoa, Silvio Porzionato, an artist discreet in personality but with a powerful echo that travels all over the world. Of international breath and fame, after having participated in the most famous and influential exhibitions, and after having held exhibitions in the most avant-garde cities and capitals, he arrives in the Ligurian capital. In the exhibition “deep down”, Porzionato presents unpublished paintings specially designed and for this special occasion the Studio Rossetti inaugurates the new space “I Sotterranei della Galleria”, located underneath the Gallery, with the intent to give us back a beauty until now hidden. Silvio Porzionato wanted to dress the walls with “clothes” made to measure and suitable for such a jewel. Capitals, cross vaults, arches and pillars create crossroads and masterful paths and lead us towards his works which are endowed with an instinctive magnetic force and radiate the surrounding darkness. Of an “ancient” romanticism, the scenic spectacle, which opens in front of our eyes, is a curtain that reveals faces that tell intriguing stories, whisper us their emotions and trigger others, intense, within us. |
Painted with soft but vigorous brushstrokes like the beating of butterfly wings, they delicately rest on the canvas and fly into the environment until they envelop us. The vibrant colors determine the charge of the figures, they are ironic but dramatic at the same time. The end result is a shock to our visual perception and our soul. Although intimate, in the dimension of the portrait, the subjects are represented with spontaneity, in fleeting poses, but they are able to generate such an empathy between us and them that we think we have already met them. Although Porzionato’s seems to be “realism”, given by his ability to render details and paint with skill and mastery, his creative gesture starts from the representation of people and then loses the physical and anthropocentric dimension and touches metaphysical worlds. |