Luciano Pasquini was born in Florence in 1943, but resides regularly in a small village of the florentine countryside, in the very heart of that natural landscape acting as a constant inspiration to his pictorial activity. Pasquini favours in his canvasses the conveyance of landscapes of memory. He seems nevertheless to be painting "en plein air", as his colours and his light take on different nuances with each passing hour. His peculiar feeble greens recur in many of his paintings amongst rustic cottages, while, in the backdrop, the gentle hills enclose a poetic Florence. It is a highly imaginative eden thriving in the mutable range of greens, reds and yellows. His colours have a peculiar chromatic character and tone to them and, in particular in the flower bunches, seem to be so palpable that we may sometimes feel that our eye was overcome by inner emotions. The expressiveness of his landscapes is unperturbed, the result of a poetic and creative state of mind that brings us to understand how the absolute rendition might be, in his case, not a limitation but a conscious choice. Pasquini's paintings seem to be animated by swift brush-strokes and overtones that distort our usual and beloved images; in a word, the respect for what he sees and represents and whose seriousness and modesty we must appreciate. |
