MARCELLO RUSSO KRAUSS
Born in Naples in 1951, Marcello Russo Krauss has lived and worked in Tuscany for several years. Over his 50 years of work, he has had numerous personal shows as well as participated in several group shows and competitions both in Italy and abroad.
The emotion of an encounter with nature that unfolds upon the canvas, committing it to memory and to an aesthetic world that surpasses the transient time of man. Each of the works by Marcello Russo Krauss responds to a need to express a notion, with subject-orientated coherence and distinct stylistic choices, that transform each one into a unique composition. The beauty of a landscape often comes to life under an individual's gaze, infuenced by our awareness and perception of it. Here too, the eye of the artist brings to life its own vision of seemingly different landscapes, uniting them with a common narrative: the artist's own innermost being, an undefined melancholy that extends as far as the eye can see through the leaden skies of autumn, the silence of the lonely paths, or in the poignant stretches of water sparsely dotted with boats which evoke feelings of solitude, of things loved and lost forever. An emotion that is manifested in each purposeful sweep of the palette knife, the use of colours that range from greys and deep greens to yellow streaks, and the construction of the space that invites the eye to travel from the foreground to the background in a crescendo of sensations. In other cases, on the other hand, the landscapes are lit up in sunny, bright hues, imbued with joy: a reference to life and to the seasons that are forever changing in the natural world; once again a reflection of the changing mood of the artist himself. We are the landscape, he tells us, it belongs to us and it mirrors our continuous evolution. This is the language of Marcello Russo Krauss, one which is faithful to tradition yet capable of adding new words and equally new visions to a timeless scene.
[Daniela Pronestì]