Contini Art Gallery is pleased to present “Art & Nature: Appropriation”, an exhibition by Enzo Fiore which will take place in Pontedera in the province of Pisa from 23rd of December to April 10th, 2023.   

The artist employs his earthy, organic palette to reinterpret the masterpieces of the past, giving their iconic dimension an extension of timeless appeal. From the "Pieta" to Rembrandt's "Dr. Tulp's Anatomy Lesson," Enzo Fiore presents a series of "appropriations" of artworks that have become icons of humanity, reinterpreting them and transposing them into contemporaneity, through the mystical-religious and death themes. Caducity, in fact, is an "active part" of Enzo Fiore's entire artistic production, without which everything would have no origin. However, he focuses not only on transience, but savors the taste of the imaginative by bringing back to life what seems to have ended its journey. Organic matter transforms itself and impeccably portrays the great masterpieces of classical art to reveal the awareness of contemporaneity that such artworks maintain in the stated truths necessary for Art as a representation of life. The idea of matter as the cyclic vitality of the natural system, in which the energy of its continuous transformation into something else dominates and represents the expressive power of contemporary art, towards a constant tension and research, of new materials, new expressions, new dialogues. In his works of art, subject and matter merge, the canvases are composed by earthy and enveloping tones, the essential and pungent colors outline faces of characters, belonging to the art world, from Frida Kahlo to Keith Haring. In his sculptures, however, the guiding line becomes the plant element such as the root that sinuously tames and shapes following the forms of the body that the artist wants to create, innervates itself becoming almost anatomical expression.