Procopius - Untitled

Surrealist aesthetics emerged around the 1920s and encompassed all fields of artistic research. Specifically, in the visual arts, Surrealism sought to explore the human subconscious and translate it into artwork through a mechanical writing process based on dream analysis. Consequently, Surrealist artworks propose the representation of a dreamlike dimension, completely dissociated from reality . However, this representation often relies on a hyperrealistic formal rendering, precisely to paradoxically accentuate the illusory and ambiguous nature of the surreal dimension. Even in the work of the Cattolica painter Maurizio Procopio, everything unfolds in a dimension that goes far beyond perceptible reality to explore parallel worlds: those of dreams and symbols. All his subjects are set in a world born entirely from the artist's creativity, in which mysterious and fascinating figures move. In this case we see a man and a rhinoceros who need to be sent on a bicycle.

Regarding his style, Maurizio Procopio has developed an original and highly recognizable formal style that recurs in much of his work. Here, however, as we are dealing with a graphic work, the language differs slightly from the artist's paintings, which depict lunar landscapes with elegant, elongated black silhouettes. From an aesthetic and conceptual perspective, this work can be traced to a surrealist line, reminiscent of artists such as Dalí and Magritte. In this work, also because it is graphic, the style is sketchy and linear. Everything is monochrome on cream-colored paper, and color is avoided to present the whole as if it were a true drawing. The space is two-dimensional, its lack of spatiality being provided by the horizon line with the baobabs and the chiaroscuro that gives dimension to the figures.

Maurizio Procopio is a painter originally from Cattolica. Much of his work features surrealist settings featuring elegant subjects with refined compositional rhythms. However, the artist also has a wide range of artistic expression, creating naive landscapes, surrealist works, and others with an almost metaphysical feel.

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