Bernardo Siciliano Painter Italy 1969

Bernardo Siciliano
Born 1969 in Rome, Italy.Lives and works in New York City.
As a young man, Bernardo Siciliano consumed as many visual resources as he could find - the Italian Renaissance in particular - but also of the artists Edward Hopper, Lucian Freud, Balthus, and Richard Diebenkorn, to name a few. Above all, Siciliano is an Italian painter who learned the rules of perspective from Piero Della Francesca and the drawings of his architect grandfather. As described by artist Vincent Desiderio, “The paintings of Bernardo Siciliano imply a ferocious will to see and record. They are unadorned by finery, presenting, as it were, just the essential facts. They are brutal in both their scrutiny and the limits which the artist imposes upon himself. Yet, though empirically driven they seem overcome by a sense of visual panic. They are haunted by nagging suspicion that though everything in the optical field has been accounted for, there remains an ineluctable other that drives the imagination beyond the quotidian.”
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