GIROLAMO MECARELLI STUFERA - Italy

CONTACTS: girolamo.mecarelli@tin.it

Sleeping

The Bald Soprano

oil on canvas cm 35 x 50

oil on canvas 40 x 70 cm

Omenaje a Tarrega

Where did I put the nail clipper

oil on canvas 50 x 70 cm

oil on canvas cm 50 x 70

Wind

Black Bashi Bazouk

oil on canvas cm 35 x 70

copy from Jean Leon Gerome oil on canvas 60x80

About his Art

Silent hemisphere
Critical note by Maria De Michele
The diffused light and the play of shadows introduce the breath of life into the female nudes of Girolamo Mecarelli Stufera. The mastery in fixing the figure in space with a pronounced sense of naturalness infuses the paintings with a tremor of life. Different poses executed with formal perfection stand out with an uncommon rhythm and expressive potential. The painting “REM Phase” is interesting, where realism and geometric scanning accentuate the relationship between conceptual and figurative. A painting that, turning to the viewer, invites them to follow it on its dreamlike journey.
The figure in the fetal position, in a project of rationality, rests on a background where myriads of small multicolored spheres are represented, a metaphor for paths lived beneath the surface and dense with tumultuous impulses. The artist’s silent hemisphere perceives and expresses a surreal vision through the symbolism of light and darkness.
Behind an apparent self-irony, which transpires from the title of the painting “Where did I put the nail clipper,” the artist offers us a composition from which a veil of melancholic reflection emerges, expressed with a very delicate poetic chromaticism. Extraordinary is the posture of the model, which seems to take us back to the dawn of the creation of Eve; transparencies and nuances envelop the figure in beauty and mystery. The body within spaces of vaporous luminescence captures the magic of the feminine. Grace, sobriety, and delicacy of the line become projections of states of mind, a sinuous and soft painting without the harshness of wanting to reveal a tormented reality.
A classicizing realism where the clarity of language and concrete inspiration are based on a strong feeling towards human nature and its careful study. Girolamo Mecarelli Stufera is an artist who plunges his gaze into the world in search of tangible realities.
Naples, July 26, 2014

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