Silvio Gagno will open his studio on Saturday 12 October 2024, from 5pm to 8pm (participation by invitation), where you can admire his works, created over a period of time that covers fifty years of his activity.

Silvio Gagno's pictorial adventure began in the seventies with works that put the human figure at the centre, investigated and expressed in very different forms and situations.

In the eighties, the figure dissolves and the chthonic force of nature enters preponderantly, irrepressibly, disrupting every previous vision.
He is the Silvio Gagno of the "High Skies", of canvases dominated by color and light, by dilated surfaces that refer to aerial descriptions of sidereal worlds and at the same time of infinite plains, waters and boundless lands. These are the years in which Silvio painted in the studio in Lignano, on the top floor of a large hotel, an oasis of life and art, a happy coincidence of colour, nature and dreams. Paintings are born fueled by wind and reflections, fiery twilights and moving silences.

In the nineties, the use of the flat brush leads the master to conceive the canvas as a place of meeting or clash: the painted surfaces are characterized by a sort of hinge, or rather, central fault, to which opposite tensions-directions converge.
The canvas is the place of events, it is the space of vital impulses which are subsequently transformed into "Corridors" of the sky, into hypothetical streets made of cosmic emptiness and rendered through the impalpable scanning of chromatic bands, often oblique and repeated.

Around 2005 the "Codes" made their debut, canvases innervated with variously combined colored textures which, in the countless subsequent elaborations, became a distinctive feature, a luminous and fluctuating intermittency.
They even invade the memory, constituting a sort of genetic code, a spiral or double helix that refers to the structures of DNA.

In the "Family Codes" cycle, black and white photographs constitute the intimate background of a private lexicon, made up of faces and people that emerge from a personal history, from a past of ghostly presences-absences.

In Silvio Gagno's latest production, the light continues to break down under the regular intervals of the filamentary brushstrokes that pursue large-scale three-dimensional and dynamic effects. In the vast expressive universe of the Treviso master, multiple echoes and suggestions have always converged: Monet's impressionism, Seurat's post-impressionism (almost at the origins of modern digital pixels), Boccioni's futurist decompositions and also the more recent vibes of a Gerhard Richter.
All in the name of a very personal reflection around the material-color which in its perpetual fragmentation and parcelling, does nothing but capture and retain the ineffable mystery of light expressed in the thousand faces of an extraordinarily satisfying and proud nature.
Lorena Gava