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.
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