Enzo Fiore: Arte e Natura - Appropriazione, Pontedera

It is from nature that artist Enzo Fiore draws to shape his creative flair: roots, moss, twigs, leaves, earth, stones and insects are the dominant and inescapable elements of his compositions. What at first glance may appear to be a material agglomeration of pigments reveals itself, under closer and more careful examination, to be a micro-world of organic details that tell of the natural world that surrounds us and on which we inevitably depend. The artist's compositional idiom is endless, it has no beginning and no end condition, but rather a constant and persistent continuous cycle where man, matter, nature, life and death insist in a fatal attraction in which renunciation seems to have lost its balance. Fiore's academic training does not betray in the Appropriations series: with extreme deference, the artist employs his earthy, organic palette to reinterpret paintings of the past, imbuing their iconic dimension with an extension of timeless fascination. In this exhibition, directed by Alberto Bartalini, the original icon appropriated by the artist is flanked by a reproduction on "Digital Fresco," an innovative technique that uses images transferred on plaster on this occasion, produced by Giannoni&Santoni. From the "Pieta" to Rembrandt's "Dr. Tulp's Anatomy Lesson," Enzo Fiore enacts a series of "appropriations" of artworks that have become icons of humanity, reinterpreting them and transposing them into contemporaneity, through the mystical-religious and death theme. Caducity, in fact, is an "active part" of Enzo Fiore's entire artistic production, without everything would have no origin; however, he does not focus only on transience, but savors the taste of the imaginative by bringing back to life what seems to have ended its journey