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LEONARDO CICCARELLI

Lives and works in Macerata, Italy
www.ciccarellileonardo.it

there are not boundaries and limitations. These are expressions of
a calm sensitivity and of a meditative research which explains itself
in shapes and contents warmed up by a spiritual harmony. Memory
and thought come into shape, intersecting with compositional
structure which give us back a subjective vision and the plot of the
whole pictorial configuration, recalling suggestions which take the
spectator in a context of quite shades inviting to reflection. The
conceptual and imagined dimension takes over the realistic element
which acts as input for the uncoiling of an intuitive creative process
and the compositional purity of the whole, letting emerge mental
spaces, revealing a modus operandi where the elimination of what
is “superfluous” reveals a cleaning which is at both times of space
and thought. In each of Ciccarelli’s compositions there is a clear
and evocative poeticism, an underlying energy made of a harmony
able to generate order and beauty. The author presents us with
an ethereal nature, which makes us forget for a moment the daily
frenzy to which we are submitted to in order to be surrounded by a
pure beauty, immersed in a suspended and fluctuating time.
Dr. Monica Ferrarini

Leonardo Ciccarelli’s rarefied and silent atmospheres are
characterized by a communicative strength which is accompanied
by an expressive freedom made of soft and light shades, as well
as more decisive and strong ones. Always pervaded by a delicate
expressive lyricism and by a never intrusive brightness, his works
are always delicate and captivating, accompanying the observer
towards immaterial and highly communicative visions. It is a painting
deriving from an intimate sensorial tension, from the will of giving
shape and colour to a series of emotional impulses through which
the artist lives the nature and the world around him. His paintings
are a projection of thoughts and states of mind which materialize
on canvas through suspended dimensions or visions re-elaborated
by an emotional charge which allows to reach silent atmospheres
enveloped in a delicate melancholy. The image abandons itself to
imagination and the phenomenal element soon becomes a pretext
to get to a dreamy infinity made of wide areas of colour whom
essentiality instills calm and purity. The suggestive combination of
the chromatic elements, mixed with the wide strokes generates
aerial perspectives which extend towards unlimited spaces, where

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