Blueseries – Plutone e Proserpina by Silvio Porzionato
Bernini depicts the climactic moment of the action: the proud god is dragging Proserpine to Hades, her muscles tense in the effort to support the body that is unraveling, so much so that Pluto’s hands sink into her flesh, an extraordinary detail that Porzionato skillfully brings back to the canvas. Bernini depicts the climactic moment of the action: the proud god is dragging Proserpine into Hades, muscles are tensed in the effort to support the body that is unraveling, so much so that Pluto’s hands sink into her flesh, an extraordinary detail that Porzionato skillfully reports on the canvas.
Porzionato favors the frontal point of view as proposed by the Galleria Borghese, which makes the characters recognizable and the scene comprehensible. The original work is shattered, broken down and reassembled on the canvas so that it can be readable from all views and the narrative of the sculpture can be realized in its entirety.
Plutone e Proserpina by Silvio Porzionato: https://www.rossettiartecontemporanea.it/opera/plutone-e-proserpina-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.
