The Timeless Wait

Pietro Cernigliaro's Biografy

Pietro Cernigliaro was born on march 03, 1940 in via Anicia, Rome, in the heart of Trastevere district.

On 1951-53 he attended the middle school Ugo Foscolo, located in the Jewish district Ottavia's Porch; here he committed himself with particular involvement and passion into the Drawing Decorative Style course directed by master Francesco Trombadori (prominent exponent of the Roman school).
The school curriculum would be completed on 1967 with the degree in Actuarial Statistic taken at University "La Sapienza" in Rome.
In 1988 he attended in Rome, at the workshop of prof. Gerardi, a pratical course of jewellery technique.
From 2003 to 2006 he attends in Rome, at the UPTER, technical practice course of restoration from Mrs.Loredana Rizzo.
The work commitment at an primary insurance Company based in Rome from 1968 to 2000 allowed him little time for artistic development of his artistic passion.
Nevertheless, the interest in pictorial art would never abandon him throughout the following thirty-two years, pushing him to visit the major exhibitions and art galleries in Naples, Rome, Forence, Bologna, Milan, Torino, Venice, Amsterdam, Vienna, Madrid, Monaco, Paris, London, Berlin, Prague .

FIRST PERIOD -(approach to paiting) from 1978 to 1986 he approached painting by using tempera and oil colours in a totally intuitive self-taught manner, starting with the reproduction of works of past masters.
In 2000, as he had mastered much of the oil painting technique, he engaged in such works as : “ Violin and Guitar” from the painting by Pablo Picasso in the Hermitage Museum, “The silver cup” of Jaques Simenon Chardin in the Louvre Museum.
Since 2001, free from work commitments for having reached the retirement age, he dedicated himself full-time to more challenging artworks as “The Empire of Lights“ by René Magritte , “ The Kiss“ by Gustav Klimt, “Rinaldo and Armida “ by Domenico Zampieri (called Domenichino) , “Group of angels“ by Annibale Carracci , “Venus in the Mirror” by Diego Velasquez , “ Fruit bowl glass and apples” by Paul Cezanne.

SECOND PERIOD - (creative paintings) Since 2005 he embarked on a self-creative figurative painting with symbolic purpose as“The Self-Portrait”, “The Snow Queen”, “A Star was born” , “The portrait of prof. Cultrera” , “The Sermon”.

THIRD PERIOD - (testing and research) Since 2007 he changed the style of painting with a greater focus on "mechanisms of vision":the images are made on canvas with pure geometric shape oil paints, an artwork emerges that at close distance causes an apparent optical illusion that strikes abstraction,while at a greater distance il appears in all its strength "expressive" .
In essence, it tends to propose a neo-expressionist style (deformation of the image aimed at greater expressiveness) coupled with a pseudo-divisional style (approaching pure-colored dots that the retina can focus on at a distance by creating illusory shades of color).
There is a combination of two styles completely unpublished in the contemporary art scene.

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Comments and reviews are welcome to the address : p.cernigliaro@alice.it

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