Marco Cioffi - Artificial Paradises

Marco Cioffi's artistic practice draws on the school of Pollock and American Abstract Expressionism. His vision of the world is filtered through a profound process of interiorization: the artist embraces the complexity of existence and pours it onto the canvas. Hence the profoundly gestural approach that underpins Marco Cioffi's work. The artist's emotions and spirituality are transformed into a pictorial gesture that gives rise to complex compositions, just as the human self and its relationship with the world are complex. Formally, this translates into an extraordinary variety of interventions on the pictorial support, in a continuous overlapping of energetic brushstrokes, material concentrations, more calligraphic interventions, and emotional drippings. The result is managed by Cioffi in a complex compositional balance that places color at the forefront. Cioffi's works are a continuous interplay of harmonies and dissonances that constantly stimulate the viewer's psyche.

Inspired by Poe's "almost fraternal charm" and his own experiences with hallucinogens, Baudelaire enshrines in his Artificial Paradises his reflections on the relationship between artistic creation and drugs, considered "means of multiplying individuality." Through these substances that alter perception, expand the ego, intensify the creative imagination, and phantasmagorical transfigure reality, man satisfies his "taste for the infinite" and seeks to escape his own limitations, the prison of the body, and the slavery of time. But of all artificial pleasures, the only one truly capable of opening the gates of paradise is poetry, which translates the hieroglyphics of the world and captures the subtle and mysterious correspondences of nature.

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