Triennial exhibition of visual arts in Rome - 2017 edition

Victorian complex, April 1, 2017

Pippo Borrello with Renzo ArborePippo Borrello with Renzo Arbore

Born in the Gulf of Naples, Pippo Borrello plays his training at the Accademia d'arte di Napoli, Under the guidance of Guido Biasi and Emilio Notte.

The Neapolitan artistic environment of the Fifties and Sixty induces him to undertake a careful research on innovations and at the same time rooted in tradition.

Together with the Group 58 he begins an experiment that leads him progressively to abandon the realism and to embrace a free painting, which denies the perspective illusion in the direction of flattening the plans.

The long career of Borrello saw the alternation of several phases, however the linear element, in his compositions, he has always held a very important role in his artistic practice, acting as a constant fil rouge.

Despite the recent production of Borrello points to abstraction, even in"Dusk" stands out the line, a manufacturer of subtle and delimiting forms of pictorial areas.

The painting is distinguished by the uniform and grey colors, among which emerge the black of the landscape.

In the distance the gold of the sun seems to pour into the water leaving place to a very thin silver moon. Through the skilful juxtaposition of small forms and a few colors, the artist therefore creates a painting with a strong symbolic connotation and an intense visual impact, able to evoke nostalgic and melancholic memories.