FEATURED ARTIST   -  March 2004

Antonio DiViccaro

Antonio Di Viccaro paints sun drenched landscapes, the moods of the sea, summer days bursting with color. His world has not changed; it has been enriched, as well as his style. Using his experience with materials he creates a tension in his paintings, which intensifies the observer’s physical sensations. Di Viccaro experiences nature like a visceral love.

His paintings show the complete pleasure of one who immerses himself in a sea of trees and leaves, of luxuriant blossoms and flowering vines, and participates in the sensuous, tumultuous, incessant life of vegetation. Di Viccaro’s way of painting gently adapts itself to this impetus of existential identification with the scenery. Landscapes of Venice or the Amalfi Coast dissolve into violent emotions of color. As in a field the colors of the flowers, the blazing of the sun and the reflections of the sea merge and blend to become an unrepeatable moment of life, so do the elements in Di Viccaro’s paintings. The elements of the sea and vegetation are fused inexplicably into a dense fabric.

Mykonos	Vista Su Positano

Di Viccaro provides an admirable example of interpretation in a series of landscape themes, which have become objects of meditation, stimulated by the artist’s lyrical and emotional foundation. Reality is translated into paintings as constructions, as volumes that occupy a space and find in the harmony between form and atmosphere their reason for being. To make concrete the essence of a landscape, to transfer it into a painting, it is necessary to possess objectivity in all its secret aspects. Only then does it become pliable and can be transformed into images-figurations of a new, completely transformed reality. From this kind of rapport with the truth, Di Viccaro creates his realism, a realism that constructs images equivalent with his way of experiencing life, and transfers them into a new dimension of the landscape.