Salvatore Vernengo - Mother with Son

The iconography of motherhood is closely linked to the subject of the Madonna and Child. It is probably one of the most popular iconographies in the history of both Western and Eastern art. The Madonna and Child appears since the dawn of medieval painting and remained a constant subject as long as religious themes dominated artistic production (that is, until the 19th century, when themes inspired by everyday life began to be introduced). It is quite common for contemporary artists to treat the iconography of motherhood without directly linking it to the Christian religion. Salvatore Vernengo's paintings are distinguished by their choice of traditional subjects, such as landscapes, portraits, or depictions of animals. However, in this artist, tradition combines with an original symbolist vein that leads him to transfigure reality.

For artist Salvatore Vernengo, depicting landscapes, human figures, or animals means achieving, through painting, a delicate fusion between naturalistic rendering and poetry. Indeed, his subjects, in which he employs a purely figurative language, remain rooted in sensory data. Yet reality seems transfigured into a lyrical interpretation that almost transports it into a dreamlike dimension. Formally, this translates into a highly delicate pictorial style where reality is represented objectively yet subtly. This means that the capture of realistic details and particulars is lost in favor of a predominantly dry language, aimed at exalting plasticity. Yet Salvatore Vernengo possesses an extremely refined touch that allows him to delicately shade the objects he depicts. Above all, his color palette is distinguished by a refined anti-naturalistic tendency, whereby the total immersion in cool or warm colors, which tonally unify the scene, expresses the artist's poetic sensibility and his almost dreamlike interpretation of the world.

Artist Salvatore Vernengo is a figurative painter who, through extensive research, has developed his own coherent and original language. His representations draw on reality, but through a delicate, symbolist pictorial conception, nature is transfigured into a poetic dreamlike dimension.

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