Orlando Padovani - Untitled

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 always been an artist's aspiration. 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 16th century, up until the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism. In Orlando Padovani's pictorial production, the seascape is the undisputed protagonist. This subject is explored by the artist in various stylistic ways, with a figurative language and a highly experimental approach.

Orlando Padovani's landscapes are suspended in a metaphysical dimension between realism and surrealism. Indeed, what he depicts is perfectly plausible, yet his interpretation transfigures reality into an unreal atmosphere, suspended in silent stillness. In this sense, the chromatic contribution of the intense blue that predominates in Padovani's work is fundamental. The color of the sea is applied objectively and compactly. Striking flashes of light along the horizon, the blue unites sky and sea, filling the surface of the work. Padovani's stylistic approach to the small trabocco, which seems to be lost in the immensity of the water's surface, is entirely different. In this case, the artist defines the object through an intense pictorial vibration, with a color so dense and material that it also develops in relief.

Orlando Padovani is a painter of Calabrian origins who later moved to Lodi. He created the "Bluism" movement, so called because of the intense blue hues that characterize his works. In 1988, Orlando Padovani received the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale.

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