Blueseries – Nike 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.
The Winged Victory of Samothrace (or Nike of Samothrace): goddess of victory, symbol of freedom.
It is undoubtedly one of the most famous Greek masterpieces of the Hellenistic period. The sculpture, made of Parian marble, was probably carved in Rhodes at the beginning of the 2nd century BC and is now kept in the Louvre Museum in Paris. Nike was one of the Greek gods; daughter of the Titan Pallas and the nymph Styx, she personified victory (in war and sport). She was depicted as a young winged woman dressed in a light chiton.
The painting is done in oil on canvas, often large in size. The style is characterized by multiple brushstrokes and fragments of blue that create a sense of movement and abstraction, making the main figure emerge from a chaotic background, almost as if submerged or surrounded by a stormy sea. Porzionato reinterprets this iconic image to explore the resonance of victory, strength, and resilience in modern art. The secondary figures and architectural background are rendered in the same fragmentary style, offering a modern and dynamic interpretation of antiquity.
The intensity of the color in the painting is masterfully managed through the exclusive use of different shades and tones of blue, ranging from bright, vivid tones to darker, deeper shades. There is no dull or muted color, but rather a consistently high saturation, which contributes to the strong visual impact of the work. The choice of intense, rich blue is not accidental: it evokes a profound meditation on interiority, spirituality, and the search for human essence, eliminating the distraction of other colors and allowing the observer to focus on the essential.
Nike by Silvio Porzionato: https://www.rossettiartecontemporanea.it/opera/nike-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.
