Francesco Matera - Flowers

Flowers, or plants in general, as independent subjects, began to appear in still lifes, a genre that emerged in the early 17th century. Subsequently, painters, especially the Impressionists, increasingly focused on the world of flowers and plants, as they offered an extraordinary opportunity to capture vibrant colors and light. Thus, flowers and plants were depicted not only in vases, but also immersed in their natural landscape. While initially a pretext for painters to attempt a photographic reproduction of reality, with contemporary art, the subject of flowers and plants also became a way of interpreting reality.

Francesco Matera's style is rooted in the quality of his subjects, always drawn from a countryside to which the artist feels a strong connection. For this reason, the images that come from his senses or his memory are always extremely concrete, with a tangible realism. Indeed, compositionally, Matera's works are always based on a solid drawn structure in which the contours are defined by a clear black line. In this way, the objects acquire a strong plastic structure that determines their concreteness and clarity. As for the pictorial layering, the artist imbues these real presences with life through a highly complex and dynamic treatment of color, which at times leads to a textured, spatula-like distribution. The chromatic coherence of the works is also extraordinary, conveying the poetry of an existence tied to the earth and the warmth of the sun.

The union that occurs in Francesco Matera, between the concreteness of the structures and the solidity of the dense, material color in a painting aimed at the authenticity of a rural world, reveals a strong inspiration from the French painter Paul Cézanne.

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