The chromharmonies represent the third phase of my long pictorial period inspired by music and its "synesthetic" relationship with painting. In the works of this period, painting finds its autonomy again, although enriched by its past "intimate relationship" with music.

Spontaneous chromharmonies

Almost always improve a topic (or subject) creating cycles of works. Often a series of many works that evolve gradually and consistently. Works out series are isolated experiments, or even cycles from develop ...

Paintings out series

Armonia del colore come l'armonia del suono

Cromarmonie

Nothing to say 

Selection from a  cycle of 100  pop banknotes

Banknotes

The music in this series of drawings, has only a symbolic role, the guitar is an irony that is opposed to grace surreal nudes


Nude with guitar 

 Estate 2010 - Selezione di foto scattate a Berlino

Berliners notes

A series of female faces, drawn in pencil, in which more of the look is cutting hair and earrings to describe the character and the mood of the subject

Female faces

A cycle of works inspired by the vital energies, where the blue is the reference to the blue notes of jazz, but also to the nostalgy, while looking for a friendly relationship with the user ...


Blue energies

A series of studies on color harmonies (cromarmonie), scores of colors, the harmony of colors as the harmony of sounds ...


Pure digital

Donne

The pictures, produced in Molise between 1988 and 1990, have a closer look on my land. An investigation beyond the record in search of places, moods, details that show aspects that are resistant to time. A land that, despite the inevitable changes and improvement of living conditions of the past twenty years, jealously guards its history,
its traditions, its rituals, peasants, buildings ...


Molise (Italy), particular

A collection of nudes I love because the refinement of the shot takes nothing away from sensuality of model

Refined and sensual nudes 

Works of the seventies, the period of "metabolisms" ... The period in which I voluntarily underwent the influx of great artistic movements and great artists.

1974. Vintage gestural works  

A cycle of landscapes painted in the summer of 1979. Together with a very young painter, then my friend, we toured the Molise far and wide, visiting historic sites, farmhouses, castles and countryside. Taking a leap of a hundred years backwards in time: we painted "en plein air", like Gauguin and van Gogh in Brittany; as we talked about art and life, and often we had very fierce comparisons .... Nothing new perhaps, but (at least for us) a very useful experience! PS.There are also other landscapes painted "En plein air" in previous years and in those successes to the "historical" years, which have the same spirit.

En plein air

Opere realizzate con i colori residui sulla tavolozza

Creative slag

Works created from the second half of the sixties to the end of the seventies, a period in which I developed the influences from great contemporary artists and revolutionary artistic movements. I have "metabolized" impressionism, expressionism, cubism, abstractionism, conceptual art ...

Vintage works

Often for me, painting has a cathartic function like that of dreams: a new event, a desire that does not have the strength to be expressed, a presentiment, an obsession become the theme of a pictorial cycle, and so as the work proceeds , anguish or exaltation dissolve and things get back to their right dimension.
I painted the first families in 1985 in part with this spirit ...

1988. Little Families

These large works are inspired by some "banknotes" a cycle of watercolors made in the late 90s. I have chosen some of the most significant works and have reproposed them in oil on panel works.These works, together with the watercolors, became the core of my great anthological exhibition in Campobasso (Italy), in 2018, entitled "Over style"

Over style

The Chromarmonies are inspired by the musical harmonies. The musician builds its sound architectures using conventional progressions of sounds, selected by the endless sonic possibilities: the musical scales. The scales have changed over the centuries, from the Greek tetrachords to  contemporary chromatic scale. The compositional form with which I build the color scales is the chromatic square, where the term "color" regains the original meaning  of "color".

New Chromharmonies

The representation of sound and its structure, as symbolic and aesthetic element

Sound tracks

The "Gestual" cycle is inspired by the covers of the "ancient" long playing, historical containers of analogue music, which measured cm. 31 x 31. The dimensions of these small ink works are therefore not random. A first, naive approach to music ...

Gesturals


The series refers to original sin, which brought man from the earthly paradise to mortal life on earth, made of joys and sorrows ... A sin not at all venial, but "venal", because Eve gives in to flattery of the devil!

Venal sin

In my digital works blend my experiences as a painter, photographer and graphic artist

Michelangelo Janigro