Blueseries – Nettuno a palazzo by Silvio Porzionato
Silvio Porzionato continues his engagement with art history by exploring the work of another major figure in European sculpture: Lambert-Sigisbert Adam.
In 1737, at the height of the late Baroque period, Lambert-Sigisbert Adam created *Neptune Calming the Waves*, now in the Musée du Louvre in Paris.
The god of the sea calms the waters with a gesture that is vigorous yet measured, powerful yet controlled, dynamic yet disciplined. The masses twist, the drapery billows, and yet everything tends towards stillness and harmony. It is the representation of an ordering principle, in which cosmic chaos is restored to classical equilibrium.
In this comparison of eras and artistic languages, Baroque monumentality dissolves into contemporary painting. Whilst Lambert-Sigisbert Adam creates a tension that resolves into calm, Porzionato explores the instability of the moment: figures emerge and dissolve, outlines fragment, and light diffuses. The image does not remain static, but vibrates, like something on the verge of vanishing.
Neptune loses its heroic dimension to become the manifestation of an emotional trace. It is no longer nature that is being dominated, but an inner tension that never finds resolution. The blue reveals a suspended, mental dimension, in which reality is transformed into a sensory experience. Thus, the classical reference negates itself as it moves away from the pursuit of perfection to explore the fragility and precariousness of human experience.
The god of the sea is suddenly relocated and transported to Palazzo Madama in Turin. It is a visual and conceptual shift: the sculpture is transposed into a space that is itself a repository of memories and an interweaving of different artistic languages. Palazzo Madama becomes a suspended setting and an unstable mental space that transforms the dialogue with the past into an inner and contemporary experience.
Nettuno a Palazzo by Silvio Porzionato: https://www.rossettiartecontemporanea.it/opera/nettuno-a-palazzo-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.
