Paris Painting

With a very diluted oil, Salvatore Sferrazza, can create suggestions that move us. From a car in heavily falling rain, veiling his eyes, spilling onto the windscreen and amplifying the headlights and the melancholic brightness, Salvatore Sferrazza observes a world which is no longer concealed. Or rather, this world is confused, is almost dissolved, melted. But because of this no longer has the means to pretend to be as it is not. The silhouette of a man who is moving away from us, evanescent but present in the vibrant red of his umbrella, makes us a bit sad : because we understand that this man is asking questions to which perhaps, in the world, he will find no answer. The author speaks in a delicate and sensitive tone and tells us that “The Red Umbrella” is a autobiographical work; it tells us that the world is increasingly blurred, and that that man is choosing whether to dive into the depersonalized chaos of city life to which the street wet and shiny with rain is leading him , or not . But he does not want to impose his artist's view at all costs; we understand that he is very poetic, almost coy, however, in the attempt to protect himself. He lets his paintings, which ressemble him, speak for themselves. His is not a leaden painting of coarse, repulsive pessimism, it is a studied, meditative, sweet melancholy. With disturbing traits: with indefinable presences, from the wet glass we see a confused black shape, we do not know if it is coming towards us or it appears only to remind us that he is there... He is 'a very personal artist: he carefully chooses his subject, never improvised, which comes to life on canvas in a technique requiring a lot of time and much patience to get the amazing effects of wet and light filtered and transformed by water. Yet Sferrazza does not want to show off and also the titles are elusive, including the allusive, the meditative, the lapidary: Along the Road, Night, Lights. It is quite unbelievable that all the paintings were produced in 2005, and that this is the 'new way' that the artist, born in Caltanissetta, in 1964, trained at Academia 'Cappiello of Florence and currently living and working in Pisa, is following. He worked for years as a graphic designer and graphite and pastel represent a beautiful period. He is a multifaceted artist: the solo exhibition at Jelmoni Studio until 15 February, is a study of his research, including, particularly , the series of airbrushed poetic, soft and sweet nudes, which led him to oil . I wonder if the red umbrella is that warmth, that throb of life and passion ... that saves you …….. you must follow your emotions, they say much more than words. Chiara Bernazzani

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:47.2 W x 31.5 H x 1.2 D in

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