Fulvio Di Piazza

Among the great painters of his generation, Fulvio Di Piazza is the only one who has kept on painting without giving in the current trends, but persevering on the Surrealism line, his “Noble Father” being the visionary Salvador Dalì rather than the metaphysical Magritte. As a matter of fact, his painting reminds of the surrealistic experiments and attempts to represent the subconscious journeys in an automatic way as regards the composition; although it is utterly modern as regards the colour since it recalls the fantasy atmospheres of a certain literature, or the dreamlike ones from a certain kind of symbolic and fairy-tale cinema, à la Peter Greenaway, David Lynch and Tim Burton. The critic Luca Beatrice notices that, in Fulvio Di Piazza's work, what stands out is the flamboyance of an Arcimboldo passing through Disney's comics, and an entrancing feeling of horror vacui who forces him to overstuff the canvas: an artist with few equals on the international stage, almost unprecedented, whose style is absolute.