Luigi Modesti's landscapes are experienced in the realm of memory, as a dimension that is simultaneously internai and external to us. Although thè elements of the composition are common to our pictorial tradition, here they take on new significance: fields as chromatic representations of emotion, trees as simple vertical elements, farmhouses as segregated constructs of human existence.
The intense luminosity, the chromatic contrasts, the light and shadow recali the Mediterranean landscape, with the verticality of the cypresses hinting surreptitiously atTuscany.
His paintings bear the stamp of the Impressionisi tradition, which is interpreted with a rich repertoire of transparencies and a lightness of touch. Man is absent, although it is evident that he lives, works and dreams in these spaces, in these intimate and yet familiar naturai surroundings.The artist's sensitivity enables us to perceive suspended instants in time and silences that envelop thè subjects of his paintings. In his most recent works the sky takes second piace to the countryside, where the view - tinged in warm tonai colors - reminds us that the most beautiful landscapes are not those we see in our daily lives but those we experience in our imagination. |
