R. Cantone - 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 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 work is a clear example of an expressionist landscape. Reality is interpreted in an extremely synthetic manner, with an almost brutal exercise in reduction. The surface is completely two-dimensional, with no regard for spatial depth. The brushstrokes delineate the forms in a very tormented and nervous manner. Color is used according to an emotional and spiritual interpretation, without any connection to reality. Delving even further into detail, we can see how Cantone depicts the vegetation with a series of almost gestural, vertical pictorial strokes or with more calligraphic and nervous strokes. The application of color is dense and material. Even the colors do not reflect sensory data in any way, having a distinctly symbolic and spiritual significance.

The artist R. Cantone stands out for his remarkable abstraction of phenomenal reality. Sensitive data are reworked using a strongly expressionist language and a frenetic, gestural pictorial style.

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