Berlin based artist, Dario Puggioni, paints in a style balancing the classical contemporary and dark modernism.
Dario Puggioni’s shrieking bodies are cloaked in a veiled melancholy, in sombre tones which shrink them to flimsy phantoms held up by unsteady bone scaffolding. Where the light slices the image, the eye tries to probe the shadowy folds that, further back, merge with the background where sight finally loses all points of reference. Undeniably, in its tragic contemporaneousness, the emaciated and shattered body of the artist contrasts with everyday media life in which the body, endowed with seeming perfection, is at the mercy of those ever hungry to acquire empty aestheticisms. Lonely and grief-stricken, these silhouettes float suspended in poses of great tension, so much so that it seems the muscles and sheaths of nerves could tear through the very painting at any moment. The surface is heavily worked and filled out with paper and oil paint which, once they are spread on the canvas, create an animated and strong material impasto. It truly becomes almost impossible to understand where reflection begins and randomness ends: the watery blacks are rendered with wide and rapid brushstrokes, quite unlike the brief marks of details which form the verses of this moving tale – the painting of Dario Puggioni.
