Michele Principato Trosso (Germania 1974) - senza titolo

Technique: Olio su tavola legno
Signature: Hand signed
Michele Principato Trosso (born 1974 in Germany) lives in Italy
Oil and mixed technique on canvas
Work signed on the back;
with Certificate of authenticity
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(text by journalist Cristina Palmieri) :
In his works it is often difficult to understand whether the instinctive moment prevails or the need to create a rational barrier to it, capable of containing the overlapping of gestures, shapes and colors within a composition in which nothing is left to chance. This is because, in the Informal, the two moments are inseparable, even if obviously distinct, like two ends of a tension that acts dialectically. The coloristic constructions, the tonal relationships, the transparencies praised by the subtle chromatic superimpositions, the spatiality that arises from the overlapping of the pictorial elements are connected to each other by correspondences that cannot be altered, as if the artist entrusted them with a fate that he will never be able to be modified. The inner impulse is always governed by intention. An intention that is clarified, however, in the process of creation. In Principato Trosso, undoubtedly, the language of the soul seems to dominate over the language of the world, in an evocation of reality which however does not fray into nebulous chromatic solfeggios, into redundant formal structures, but takes shape in compositions in which a sign always emerges poignant of things, because the experience of reality can be recomposed in the complex and articulated sphere, where experience, memory and meditation meet. The subverting element, emotion, certainly inserts itself into the heart of the image and undermines the usual views, bringing to the surface a language no longer built on the objective relationship with reality, but rather structured in the need to give voice above all to the freedom of tell the real symbolically, through the power of a narrative horizon that is born on the canvas, in the very moment of creation. The space on which the artist works is no longer an inert backdrop; creation is an overlapping of elements that create thickening and liquefaction, lights and shadows, crowded intersections of signs, symbols, scratches, brushstrokes, in dense and vibrant chromatic nuclei, or laid out in soft transparencies, as if they were sometimes seeking tumultuous courses, other times gentler and less exasperated yieldings. Painting thus becomes a process in progress, rather than a representation, because the painting represents a semantic horizon in which a total osmosis takes place between subjectivity and objectivity. In this exhibition - as we can see from the images of some works published here - Michele tries to tell a present with dubious, dramatic, often distressing implications. Here these sensations are translated onto the canvases through a bright, lively chromatism, in which reds, grays or blacks prevail, on which - almost glimmers of hope - strokes of light in blues, light blues, whites or yellows are inserted. . In which the intricate and magmatic overlapping of matter, violated by signs and scratches, seems to convey the restless, wide-open question about the meaning of life. A sense that eludes us, but which never leads us to abdicate the desire to find bright spaces of trust.
Cristina Palmieri.