The urban landscape has long been a source of inspiration for Renato Criscuolo, a keen observer of everyday life and the spaces that surround us. Al Semaforo is a raw yet profoundly intimate portrayal of the daily chaos of a large city like Naples, capturing the traffic and restless flow that define metropolitan life. Through a masterful use of color and decisive brushstrokes, Criscuolo infuses the scene with movement: figures absorbed in their own urgency, focused solely on reaching their destination as quickly as possible, oblivious to everything around them.
The colors are intense, with a clear preference for pastel tones, boldly applied to the canvas to give the painting a vivid sense of depth and presence. The work of Renato Criscuolo—Neapolitan artist and undisputed master of contemporary art—is idea, sensation, emotion. He shapes color while simultaneously shaping our own feelings through a multifaceted play of the senses, creating transitions that begin with visual perception and extend toward other sensory realms that may seem less tangible yet remain enthralling and immersive.
Faced with a painting by Criscuolo, our gaze expands until we perceive scents, sounds, silences, flavors, soul-wanderings, joyful stirrings, emotional flickers—nostalgic or unpredictable—revealing the painter’s sovereign intimacy and visceral command of the canvas.
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Dimensions of the painting (cm): L 60 x W 4 x H 80
