Antonio Marchetti Lamera: Shady Rays
As Antonio Marchetti Lamera describes his works, “the shadows take shape through the rich graphite spread with different degrees of intensity of a monochrome steel grey background.
Then with changing colors diluted in water, I clothe the surface of the work, creating a sort of glowing skin: the color in contact with the light causes continues changes of the paint substance and forces the viewer to long observation.
The final result is a stratified space where the shadows faint away, they become light and fluffy until they become a unicum with the environment which welcomes them”.
Antonio Marchetti Lamera observes the shadows in the continuous change of perspective determined by the position of the earth in relation to the sun.
The shadow eclipses the color and Lamera sublimates this temporal ravine into one painting that begins with pastel or charcoal and finds its final form with as much change as we can enjoy relaxing in front of his canvases, which often feed on the superimposition of captured shadows – modern sundial – in multiple fractions of seconds.
As Lamera says, “Shady rays” is the title of my latest works. It is a tribute to Leonardo da Vinci, who defined the shadow as deprivation of light because it pulls the light rays away and emits shady rays, which spread into the air and are of as many varieties as those of the original shadows from which they derive."
Lamera’s shadows have no boundaries, they tend to expand, to escape from the coercion of the form.
It’s the desire of liberation, of escape from a normality which tends to imprison us, in the fast pace of habit.
