Ebe Petronio

I was born in Latina, Italy, a province in the southern part of the region of Lazio, near Rome. I began doing public shows of my paintings after Academy. I take painting as a matter of personal expression. Besides contemporary art, I've chosen to use simple tools such as brushes and canvas.

The landscape is my great interest. When I'm traveling take with me always the camera, especially whit bad weather or when the lands draw cross geometry. I'm interested in expressing mental condition through the landscape, or sometimes the landscapes is the background where something happens. The landscape, the nature is something we cant do without. Recently I summarize the land in one green color around the figures and I enjoyed it very much. Generally I work with flat colors for best define the space geometry.

Graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 1996. I was first interested in futurist painting and then in aeropainting.

Awarded by the Academy of Fine Arts with an in-depth course in engraving techniques.

Always fascinated by the geometric perspectives of the Pontine plain, I began to experiment with dizzying aerial views until arriving at a complete stylization of the Agro Pontino.

At the end of the futurist investigation, and in particular of air painting, there is a substantial return to a traditional layout of the landscape, to the taste of serene views, first enjoyed and photographed, then rethought in the dimension of memory.

The landscape is a view and much more. Today the landscape has infinite variations. The landscape is a comprehensive concept, a metaphor to tell a cross-section of existence.

The choice of a medium such as acrylic responds to the need to remain in the tradition of painting, but with a technique that helps it achieve a contemporary meaning. Flat layers or quick stains alternate according to the artist's exclusive expressive needs. Serenity and feeling are the most frequent stylistic peculiarities, which contribute to the creation of an immaterial dimension. They are in fact landsc...

Art for Human Rights Exhibition
Vernissage
8 December 4.00 - 7.00 PM
9.10,11 Dec 10.00-12.30 AM and 2.00-5.30 PM
Via Marianna Dionigi 59 (Piazza Cavour)
Waldensian Church, Rome