Sandro Bastioli. Contemporary Caravaggesque painting: illuminated fruit on a stone street. An urban stage of extreme realism.
Original Painting

Light in Via dei Duchi

Oil on canvas · 60 x 100 cm

Private Collection
Year
2017
Country
Italy
The Artwork

Light in Via dei Duchi.

The architecture of the city becomes the silent backdrop of life. Upon the rough, imperfect surface of a step in Via dei Duchi, a bag of fruit awaits within the beam of a dramatic light. The oil painting captures the extreme porosity of the stone and the iridescent glimmers of the plastic, in a textural contrast of extraordinary intensity.

Chiaroscuro models the volumes, gifting the artwork a theatrical and solemn dimension. It is an instant stolen from the urban rhythm, where nature, enclosed in the everyday, finds its perfect stage upon the silent eternity of the street.

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The artist's voice

"There is a stage in every stone street. Light holds the power to elevate a distraction into a monument to the present time."

Sandro Bastioli