Salvatore Vernengo - Horse Portrait

Animal depictions in art have ancient origins, appearing even in primitive cave paintings. For religious reasons, various types of animals appear in the works of various ancient civilizations. It was especially in the Middle Ages, within the International Gothic style, that animal depictions became widespread as true portraits from life, both within works of art and in notebooks of drawings and sketches. The presence of animals as subjects in art remained constant until the contemporary era. Salvatore Vernengo's pictorial production is distinguished by his choice of traditional subjects, such as landscapes, portraits, or depictions of animals. However, in this artist, tradition combines with an original symbolist streak 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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