Video: The gray city in the paintings of Emilio Valerio D'Ospina
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Gray city. Eternal Autumn. Constantly wet asphalt. A perspective in which houses shrink too soon and plunge into the horizon. Strokes running parallel to the streets. All this creates a sense of movement in the paintings of the Italian Emilio Valerio D'Ospina. Urban life on these canvases is reduced to a path - the movement of cars past ancient and modern buildings. And where they rush, they do not give an answer.
31-year-old artist Emilio Valerio D'Ospina (Emilio Valerio D'Ospina) was born and raised in the Italian city of Taranto. 12 years ago he graduated from the Art Lyceum there and continued his studies in Florence. Two years ago, Emilio Valerio D'Ospina was invited to teach at the University of Pennsylvania, and the artist moved to the United States.
The boy discovered his talent for painting early, in kindergarten. It became clear to the educators that the child needs to draw as much as possible. It's funny that the art lyceum decided otherwise. Emilio Valerio D'Ospina, unwillingly, got into an experimental course: less practice, more theory. Philosophy, English, mathematics, art history - a solid foundation for a future architect, painter, sculptor …
But theory is theory, and meanwhile, the future author of paintings about the gray city felt black envy of his comrades who studied according to the standard program. Still, they drew and sculpted from the first days of classes, and the "theoreticians" were allowed to the easel only in the last year.
But the confrontation between theory and practice did not end there. While working at a university in the United States, Emilio Valerio D'Ospina suddenly realized that almost all painting professors are teachers who occasionally paint, and not artists who lecture from time to time. And he also realized that he himself less and less picks up a brush. Therefore, he quickly left the warm place at the department and began to work on paintings from city life.
In addition to classical painting, the artist is interested in photography (and appreciates the work of unknown flickrousers no less than renowned masters) and video games (noting the inspiring post-apocalyptic setting of "Fallout").
Emilio Valerio D'Ospina says that his gray cities are painted in the technique of abstract realism. In his youth, the artist strove to copy reality almost with photographic accuracy, but over time he realized that it was not exactly happiness, and even more so skill. After all, photorealism does not provide the necessary freedom of self-expression, and the artist needs his own unique style like air.
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