Ernesto Notarantonio is a contemporary abstract painter and fine art photographer who lives and works in Rome.The production Notarantonio takes the form of gestural painting, based on the continuous experimentation of colours, materials and formats that alternate, giving space to...
Read MoreErnesto Notarantonio is a contemporary abstract painter and fine art photographer who lives and works in Rome.
The production Notarantonio takes the form of gestural painting, based on the continuous experimentation of colours, materials and formats that alternate, giving space to randomness.
Notarantonio explores the range of colors directly on the canvas with the aim of creating new tonal combinations, facilitated in this by his experience in the field of graphics and illustration. It is from these disciplines that his interest in the sign was born, considered as a minimal typographical character used to compose the pictorial word.
His works go beyond the conventional limits of painting to enter into dialogue with photography and sculpture through techniques such as overpainting, interpolation, and décollage. The use of acrylic colors merges with the use of materials such as gold leaf, stickers, markers, polaroids in compositions that demonstrate a sensitivity for modern architectural forms and classical sculpture.
Notarantonio embraces error as an essential moment of his practice, placing himself in the position of designing and integrating imperfection into his works and alternating reflective phases with sudden and vigorous phases of color application, thus allowing the works to take shape in an intuitive way.
The works are often conceived as scores in series or cycles, in which the notion of evolution occurs, understood as a mutation of form, gesture and compositional time.
Notarantonio recently presented a selection of his pictorial works on the occasion of the "100 Artisti a Palazzo Fani" exhibitions (2024), Palazzo Fani, Tuscania; "100 Artisti in Villa" (2024), Villa Contarini, Piazzola sul Brenta (PD); "La forma del colore" (2023), A. 2C. Gallery, Terni.
