Pierantonio Masotti. The color doesn't add meaning

At this stage of his research Masotti tends not so much to pauperism as monochrome color. Favors black, white, gray, the silvery reflections, shades of brown, earth shadow, most often proposed in binary opposition, light against dark. Campisce almost always in black on the bottom support table, a tenebrismo mystery that sometimes work a semblance between the archaic and the metaphysical, even and especially when the composition, the artist uses old artifacts. The black background artist villafranchese is color-not color, not phenomenal but absolute, penetrated the atmosphere, mental, spiritual, highly evocative, has conceptual, thought thought chromatically. No internal light but accentuates the oppositional dualism black-white, light-darkness, the emphasis luministic of figures and objects silhouetted against it, night effect sometimes torn by lightning ignitions. As in photography, as in the theater, with the advent of the first color, with black and white that had, in the best outcomes, such atmospheres allusive, introspective, poetic time now vaguely disturbing, dictated by scans of light and shadow. This personal sensitivity for non-extreme colors and each other oppositional - we could put it as a Franciscan of the color field - is relevant, I think the concept that Masotti manifest: that "the image without the feeling is empty, the sentiment without 'picture is blind "and that the making of art and the sensitivity to see her entering it in are one aspect, an exercise of the spirit. It is not an easy artist Pierantonio Masotti. Mind lively and rough, receptive to cause that a well-known critic calls "antipathy" towards the mass of the audience uses to slide on the epidermis of things, when in fact the artist of today tends to look inside. Innovative and experimental but with a solid background of cultural values in the past: more I look at art and more I am convinced that it is good that the two qualities are held together.

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