GIROLAMO MECARELLI STUFERA - Italy

CONTACTS: girolamo.mecarelli@tin.it

Sleeping

The Bald Dancer

oil on canvas cm 35 x 50

oil on canvas cm 40 x 70

Homage to Tárrega

Where I put the nail clippers

oil on canvas cm 50 x 70

Wind

Black Bashi Bazouk

oil on canvas cm 35 x 70

copy after Jean Leon Gerome oil on canvas 60x80

About His Art

Silent Hemisphere
Critical note by Maria De Michele
The soft light and play of shadows introduce the breath of life into the female nudes of Girolamo Mecarelli Stufera. His mastery in fixing the figure in space, with a keen sense of naturalness, gives the paintings a tremor of life. Different poses, executed with formal perfection, stand out with uncommon rhythm and expressive power. Of interest is the painting “R.E.M. Phase”, where realism and geometric pacing heighten the relationship between conceptual and figurative. A work that, turning toward the viewer, invites them to follow it on its dreamlike journey.
The figure in a fetal position, within a project of rationality, rests on a backdrop where myriads of tiny multicolored spheres are depicted, 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, revealed by the title of the painting “Where Did I Put the Nail Clippers”, the artist offers us a composition from which a veil of melancholy reflection emerges, expressed with a most delicate, poetic chromaticism. Extraordinary is the model’s posture, which seems to take us back to the dawn era of Eve’s creation; transparencies and soft gradations wrap the figure in beauty and mystery. The body, within spaces of vaporous luminescence, captures the magic of the feminine. Grace, restraint, and delicacy of line become a projection of moods: a sinuous, soft painting without the harshness of wanting to highlight a suffering reality.
A classicizing realism in which clarity of language and concrete inspiration are grounded in a strong feeling for human nature and in its careful study. An artist, Girolamo Mecarelli Stufera, who casts his gaze into the world in search of tangible realities.
Naples, 26 July 2014

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