Alfredo Maiorino
For the past three years, Alfredo Maiorino’s artistic exploration has been marked by an attentive process of synthesis of his expressive language. Distancing himself from painting, intended as representation or as an allusion to a concrete reality or a state of mind, Maiorino explores the primary elements of pictorial language as well as the materials and their tactile and visual qualities. This process allows him to make the colour become a mental, less visible, and more interior substance. He conserves the structural elements of the painting, the canvas, the preparation and the drawing, so that the inserted objects measured and related to the interior bi-dimensional space in a functional manner similar to the way man relates to the space he inhabits. In this purified space, materials extraneous to pictorial language, such as glass and felt, are inserted serving to protect and isolate the work. The glass opacifies and reflects the pictorial space, thus obliging the viewer to observe the work more attentively yet, at the same time, protects the surface while the felt, permeated in an animal-esque energy, provides warmth to the surface.