Original artwork description:

The painting shows a strong mixture of atmospheres. They show situations as psychological events and describe a journey and a place as if from an existential perspective. Their consideration is questioning and distanced. Transience and poetry are noticeable.
Randomness, stagnation and loneliness determine the mood of the painting. Color, shape and composition are tense and describe the open consciousness. The dimensions of certain moments are translated in the medium of painting.
Cotroneo demonstrates the enduring contemporary relevance of painting as a way of communicating how we experience the world in which we live. On the painted surface Cotroneo creates a magnificent pluralism that refracts and collides the memory of the past with future recollections of the present. The subjects of his paintings are always physically absent, portrayed through depictions of the environments that they might have occupied. Their invisibility heightens the mystery and artifice of the scene but also removes the most recognizable aspect of figuration from works that ultimately communicate something that goes beyond depiction or language. Much more than the sum of their very disparate parts, Cotroneos paintings make an uncompromising claim for the continuing tradition of the medium.

Materials used:

canvas and oil colors

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