Leonardo Ciccarelli creates transient planes of color that shimmer like a heat haze before the eyes and dazzle with their subtle intensity. His strong brushstrokes, which melt into the canvas at the edges, come together to form a plethora of blended textures, seas and skies, undulating fields of corns and rock formations. Mediating this soft world of varied tone is unadulterated color—most often a rich mix of carefully considered earth tones, but even primary reds and pastel lilacs feel natural and unforced on Ciccarelli’s canvas.
There is a languid, ethereal feel to Ciccarelli’s paintings. Even though the haze through which we peer is also one of speed, of a momentary glimpse of a landscape from the window of a speeding train, such is the sense of distance that the energy in the painting is not hectic, rushing, but rather a static vibrating current that charges the canvas. Perhaps this is because the landscapes we see are not physical but are instead the landscapes of Ciccarelli’s imagination—the result of long internal meanderings through places and settings never visited.

Using his imagination to travel through space allows him to free his associations with his origins, life stories and memories of nature to create a more personal and emotional journey. A sympathy with the workings of his inner self works in harmony with the external expression of the artist and results in beautifully complex and subtle artworks.

Leonardo Ciccarelli was born in Macerata, Italy, where he still lives and works.

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