The Shows

Marco Cagnetti

SURREAL ATMOSPHERES

In Pisa docks, exhibition space “ARTIS OFFICINA WEB”

From 06/21 to 07/10 open 10 AM -  5 PM

Surreal Atmospheres

by Elisabetta Caporali

"Would not the future artist be he who expressed through an eternal silence an immense painting possessing no dimension?"

Yves Klein

Marco Cagnetti is an artist who lives and works in Pisa, devoted to art for more than 20 years.

His artistic curriculum during such a long time has been enriched by awards and acknowledgements, as well as by countless critics all over Italy

He’s taken part in numerous collective and personal exhibitions like the last one, called Surreal Atmospheres.  Twelve works in mixed technique exhibited at the space Artis Officina Web in Pisa.

I’ve known him for several years and I’m positive about his artistic talent, born long ago at restoring antique paintings and sculptures, and then directly in the field of painting, loved with passion and devotion.

Cagnetti’s pictorial research began from his study with artists like Fornaini, Biagi, Possenti and Pratali.

Departing from his own experience, he’s drawn usign the figure as a start, towards an image linked to dreams, as seen on his first works with oil and acrylic colors.

The painter in that period represented the marine environment and that of nature.  Inhabited by his “creatures” as well as by teh symbols he drives from his dreams and the inconscious, the clock, the tower, the woman.  The male and female figures seen as actors in a post “Adam and Eve” age. They communicate through their forked tongues and their linguistic code. His painting was technically minucious from the bright of oil and acrylic colours, to blue, green and burning red chromatist, re-enacting in Contemporary key the Medieval wooden miniatures.

From surreal landscapes he arrives today to free compositions on a Kandiskian style, freeing from the short brush trace to launch with it in the very fluidity of the intensely chromatic backgrounds. Toning down the the scale of blues, green, violet, yellow and grey helping breath the search for a new world and new creatures to interact with.

Those works reveal decomposition in respect to the symbolic-figurative codes he used before.

Now, pictorial vision is expressed through cell organisms that contain new lives, wandering through the cosmic space, together with little planets from other galaxy, far away worlds in which the Earth and the Moon play a secondary role, as background, giving them an enormous visibility through the beam of light  that crosses, from above, all the exposed works.

Such technique breads in painting a magnificent luminous idea.

Pisa, June 2008