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  • Composizione
    Enamel & Sand on Canvas
    31.5" x 31.5"

  • Danza di Primavera
    Acrylic & Enamel on Canvas
    31.5" x 31.5"

  • Misterium
    Enamel & Sand on Canvas
    31.5" x 31.5"


Silvio FranziniSilvio Franzini

Silvio Franzini

The Portal of Tranquility
May 18 - June 7, 2012 Reception: Thursday May 24, 2012 6-8 PM

Press Release

Rooted in the legacy of Italian masters, both of the Renaissance and Modernism, Italian painter Silvio Franzini composes visual symphonies of color on his canvas through transcendent hues and mystically irregular forms. Synthesizing music with painting, Franzini dexterously arranges harmonies of primary colors into soothingly serene melodies. The artist’s sensitivity towards the painterly sounds of music is palpable to the viewer, as we visualize the lyrical resonance of colors and shapes. Soft textures characterize his brushwork, allowing the sumptuous qualities of paint to become irresistibly perceptible to the viewers’ eye. As richly spontaneous as his work might seem, Franzini meticulously plans and researches his works, studying carefully the example of the likes of Leonardo da Vinci or Kandinsky. Working from this base, Franzini blends his innate aestheticism in order to articulate a uniquely visual sound. “Since i was a child, listening to music, I was attracted to the “colors” of sound and the “sounds” of colors,” he says.

A native Italian, Silvio Franzini lives and works in Parma, Italy.  He frequently exhibits at prestigious venues in Italy and abroad, receiving national and international recognition, and gratifying approval from both the public and critics alike.


Artist Statement

When I describe my paintings I talk of the historical similarities with the abstraction of "lyric geometry" (with various pigments on canvas), sometimes of "informal painting," or even "digital painting." However I'd rather talk about what appears to be a laborious research that tends to re-define (not backward, but forward) the concept of abstraction in painting. The study of artists such as Piero della Francesca, the great Leonardo, Goya, Bosch, have certainly contributed to my training as a painter (figurative and portrait artist first, then abstract). At present the masters of Modern and Contemporary Art who have most influenced my work are Kandinsky, Klee (as an artist and theorist), Mondrian, Pollock and Rothko. Also my activities of musician and teacher have had (and still have) a crucial impact on my art.

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