Ciro Palumbo - Islands

This type of subject can be classified within the metaphysical aesthetic. The artistic movement founded by Giorgio De Chirico reclaims images that already exist, familiar to the collective imagination. However, it creates an effect of estrangement through the process of displacement—the sudden appearance of an object outside its usual context—or through condensation, the fusion of multiple objects into a single entity. Metaphysical art is also distinguished by the ostentatiously illusory nature of its images. This oil on canvas, a perfect example of Ciro Palumbo's work, perfectly fits these aesthetic canons, proposing a dreamlike and surreal citation. All this is achieved with a hyperrealist, provocative, and illusory language.

The manner in which the subject was depicted draws inspiration from hyperrealist currents. Hyperrealism aims for a completely objective representation of the image: the artist's intention is to reproduce his idea without any interpretation. In this sense, the hyperrealist aesthetic also constitutes a paradox, often consciously sought by artists. Indeed, thanks also to the use of very aggressive techniques, inspired by the world of advertising, and the use of bright color palettes, a rendering of the naturalistic element is achieved so pure as to appear illusory, deliberately fake. Ciro Palumbo's hyperrealism draws on a classical quotationism. The presence of life is minimized, delegated to the sole existence of interpolated objects. A sense of immobility, of unreal suspension, is perceived. So much so that, combined with the fact that Palumbo formally practices a deliberately illusory realism, one can speak of a metaphysical aesthetic language.

Ciro Palumbo was born in Zurich in 1965. He entered the art world working for several years as an art director in advertising agencies in Turin. He began exhibiting in 1994, subsequently appearing in around one hundred solo shows throughout Italy. In 2011, he participated in the Piedmont Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale. Among his international exhibitions are his participation at Artexpo in New York, Context Art Miami, and solo shows in Providence, USA, and Bellinzona, Switzerland. Some of Palumbo's works are included in the collection of the Credito Bergamasco Foundation, at the Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna G. Sciortino in Monreale (PA), at the MACIST Museum in Biella, at the Palazzo della Cultura, and at the MACS in Catania. He lives and works in Turin.

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