Massimo Castronuovo

Massimo Castronuovo was born in Turin in 1970, where he actually lives. His sense of art is due to some difficult period that brought him to voice his ideas. Self-taught artist, he followed his passion as an instinct, without artistic rules but using the materials that satisfied his needs. His origins are the reason of his love for the South of Italy and it produces a contradictory sense of love and hate for the industrial town where he lives. This is the main contrast that brings him to an interior conflict and it caused his inspiration energy. His style, original and personal, represents with his waves the emotions he feels in every single moment of his work. His inspiration come from some kind of incomprehension, where the reason is a victim of the events and the result is a sum of thoughts that shape in waves. These waves remember the female curves that appear with obsession and tangle, producing a sensual and harmonious balance. His works show a need of expression: the big surfaces want to represent the big thoughts coming from the reality, where everything is changeable and victim of the time.

Artistic personality

Castronuovo’s work is out of every possible classification but is shows an unusual brightness and balance. Is neither abstract nor figurative painting but rather direct expression of the soul. In 1992/93 he started to experiment and to combine the different artistic techniques that brought him to his personal painting universe. Looking at the daily life, Massimo Castronuovo is the regulator of his own world that he represent with a thick interlace of lines, creating black and white spaces. The opposition between black and white, symbol of the eternal contrast between matter and energy, is very important in his painting: the energy, using the white colours is translated in light and plasma, in free shape compositions never let to chance. And the light is the essential value that shows Castronuovo’s search of depth and his passion for the sculpture. Regarding his technique, the recent works are rich in new colours, coming from the experimentalism with different materials (such as acrylic, colouring-matter, oil, charcoal pencil, coloured crayon). In his artistic search, Castronuovo carefully selects materials, often represented by esteemed cotton paper. Recently, he produced big size paintings and, in private locals, some “murales”.

Forms and colors in the pictorial dynamism

One can not be indifferent about the originality of expression of contemporary painting. Warol inventor of Pop Art, Pollock teacher dell'espressionismo abstract, Francesco Clemente (and others) are the protagonists of the Transavanguardia new routes pictorial. Massimo Castronuovo, a young painter thirty Turin, and gave an answer with an original "Dynamic Expressionism Free" building momentum with a color painting that is getting support from operators Art.

His pictorial genius points to the creation of works that highlight the "free-form, in the magical splendor of colors; own" elan vital "color soul development of the" sign "which recalls the feeling, the reason the insights and creativity that same governs the universe dell'ARTE. Developments geometric and informal ricompongono in creating beautiful drapes games in three-dimensional wonderful explained luce-ombra.

I recall the admonition of VASARI "The union of PAINTING is a divergence of different colors granted together." The artist's aesthetic feelings are translated into vibrations of light and warm living inventive and inspiration makes us guess the immediacy of implementation of fully explains the awareness of the vitality involving the pace of our existential Civilization. In terms of Art Critics say that the paintings are Castronuovo a estrosa spontaneity painting, far from neo-figurativo and I remember the Astrattismo of Kandinsky and Delaunay. Geniale "space narrative" that becomes attractive artistic reality, the shots are also evocative and lively in the drapery fluid "which seems to move in an attractive dynamism.

Francesco Esposito (critical of art)