Blueseries – Penelope by Silvio Porzionato
Her androgynous face stimulated the artist to give her work a feminine name, the name of a valiant woman: Penelope.
A heroine who rules the island of Ithaca in the absence of her husband, in the society of her time she is held in high esteem, Penelope personifies secure roots: home, the place of return to one’s origins and the homeland itself.
Praise for this valiant character is expressed in this sublimely elegant canvas, the lines of the face heightening the expressive gentleness of the marble bust, mitigated by the mighty neck. bricks and forms not traceable to the figurative element, of varying shades of blue, black, and white, frame this marvelous face, filled with grace and mystery.
The compositional synthesis of classical and contemporary elements, the anatomical rigor of the figures juxtaposed with brushstrokes of an abstract matrix, and the contrasts of light outlining canonical faces submerged in blue give these works an extraordinary power and, at the same time, the universal aura of a classical painting.
Penelope by Silvio Porzionato: https://www.rossettiartecontemporanea.it/opera/penelope-150-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.
