Acqua (Water) by Paolo Terdich

His realism, driven by uncommon technical capabilities, is silent, intimate, and his paintings contain an unspoken, mysterious narrative, which offers an emotionally and psychologically loaded presentation that attracts the viewer. This atmosphere has been finally emphasized in his last works Water: ultra-modern and complex compositions, where the subjects are broken within the crystal water in a multitude of dynamic reflections. The water works represent his last project, an extreme challenge which combines the message he tried to transmit in his portraits and figures and the technical complications to render the movement, the transparencies and the light reflections of water and the fragmentation effects of bodies under water. These works are unusual and modern paintings, of the complex realization, with the subjects that crush the crystal of the water in decomposed glares that they decompose the bodies underwater.
He has been always attracted by water where he feels in his environment where he can fluctuate without weight and in full absence of noise. Being a dive master, he experienced the feeling of freedom underwater and he tried to pass this feeling through his painting. The focus here is again the human being dipped in a streaked blue liquid in thousand streams, from the more or less intense color. He reached a remarkable achievement in his poetic: disappeared the fidelity to the model, all it becomes more fluid and fantastic. These atypical swimmers are new subjects, unknown and, for their dynamism and chromatic liveliness, they communicate infinite feelings of movement and freedom.
Compared to the portraits, where is evident the inner psychological torment of the subjects, through water works he tried to transmit a feeling of freedom, serenity, although the feeling of loneliness remains. The whole atmosphere is still intimate and silent but now it is also relaxed. Also through the color he try to have the observer feeling the melancholy, but in a serene atmosphere.
In a nutshell, water and women are two sides of the same medal; a dialogue that covers the entire production of Terdich, a mixture of languages that the artist uses for its personal way of communicating feelings.

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