Since the very beginning colours have ruled Andrea Calabrò’s artistic panorama, giving life to shapes with large and thick strokes of the brush. When we look at his works it seems to us that we are seeing again those fauves that at the end of the Nineteenth Century used to create sunny landscapes where coolness and mesmerism were difficult to find. Upon Andrea Calabrò’s palette pure colours prevail, laid to their utmost intensity. There are nuances too, not to soften the tones but to intensify them in a crescendo that gradually gives shape and life to vital, juicy fruits. Colours are not impertinently brilliant, they sometimes stay earth-like, dry, thus making their expressivity grow. These traditional subjects – which have always been associated to the Mediterranean spirit – are now enlarged, scrutinized, enclosed in spaces with no background, where the eye cannot escape, cannot lose itself. We are therefore forced to investigate, to watch, to take note of each and single stroke of the brush which has given shape to the composition. The world we are led to investigate is well known to us, but from those simple subjects, those split fruits in the foreground, a power and an intensity arise reaching us and taking us into landscapes and worlds of smells and energy: those Italian landscapes where the sun is never kind and it sometimes dries and burns those same fruits which adamantly fight for survival. Calabrò’s landscapes and the citrus fruits are a metaphor for life; fruits that are usually used as a mere side embellishment here become subjects in their own right, at last stealing the scene. Aurora Russo
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 07:03:44 +0000
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