The exhibition is dedicated to Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio (Naples, 1972) Nobody cares about flowers at the Vistamare gallery in Pescara, where forty new works created between 2023 and 2024 are exhibited, which seem to transpose the verses of the poet Sandro Penna into painting: “one flower calls another”.
Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio’s exhibition in Pescara
The artist did not choose to represent the neuroses and obsessions of modern man that afflict his life, but rather a dreamed and idealized world where nature can console the observer. The narrative starting point is that of a summer shower during a walk or a sunny day on the seashore. The lyrical ego is addressed above all to a female recipient who allows to trigger a double mechanism of humanization of nature and to sensitize man to the point of total fusion of the primitive and vegetal or marine environment. His ideas on painting represent a hymn to nature that is still able to calm man from the anxieties produced by modern civilization that devour him.
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The poetic painting of Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio
In the painting gallery you can see marine and floral subjects in which the essentiality of the poetic message translated with a simple and spontaneous language. The painter does not neglect the technical virtuosity that we see in some works in which the framing of the painted subjects recalls the painting of the early twentieth century. Despite this, Scotto searches for modern solutions that allow him to use color with disruptive effects both in landscapes and in still lifes. On the one hand, color is a means to represent the dream vision, on the other, the Italian countryside symbolizes the emotions of man in front of nature. Vases, lights, boxes, bottles, or fields, trees, roofs, walls compose an apparently subdued and uniform eloquence, but which, in reality, the vigilant presence of the author and his technical virtuosity allow him to render a vast range of states of mind.
The words of the curators of the exhibition
“The floral paintings go beyond the intention of formally exploring a motif so recurrent in the history of art… Scotto di Luzio – write the curators of the exhibition Benedetta Spalletti and Lodovica Busiri Vici – reinvents and transforms the compositional values now with bright tones, now with faint hues or even with a scratchy black and white, in a continuous game of mirrors between cultured painting and naïve painting. (…) Next to the flowers, the residues of the human presence are captured, evoked through objects extracted from everyday life – a solitary cigarette abandoned on the ashtray, a notebook that recalls an appointment, a newspaper forgotten on the tram – like passages from a personal novel”.
Andrea Carneval
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