Dario Modena - Dilapidated Rustic

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been a major aspiration for artists of every era. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance; then with atmospheric rendering in the sixteenth century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism. The landscape developed in Dario Modena's paintings is distinguished by the choice of highly unusual subjects: small, crooked, ramshackle houses that seem to have emerged from a fairytale.

Artist Dario Modena's landscapes are distinguished by their subtly surreal, fanciful quality, and the painter strives to maintain this direction even in his form. Thus, Modena employs a rather objective figurative style to fuel the fairytale magic of his views. Furthermore, we can see how the definition of space is not based on linear perspective, but on a complexity of viewpoints that enhances its magical dimension. Finally, in terms of color, the entire painted surface is unified by a coherent tone. In this case, the work is distinguished by an atmosphere of sepia tones.

Artist Dario Modena was born in Genoa in 1952 and lives and works in Milan. He stands out for his abundant production of landscapes suspended between reality and fantasy, as well as floral compositions. His figurative pictorial language is enlivened by a great creativity.

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