House of Shadow and Cobalt

House of Shadow and Cobalt , dated to the 70s and signed C. Acciari , is a work that fully reflects the formal and chromatic tensions of landscape painting of that decade. Here the landscape is not a simple description, but becomes a place of emotional decomposition, a mental space translated into pictorial matter.

The staircase that cuts the canvas is not a simple architectural structure, but a visual trajectory that guides the eye into the painting, crossing blocks of color laid out with energy and an evident material taste. The saturated, almost electric blues fight with the purple shadows and the dense light that envelops the facade of the house, transforming the space into a continuous vibration between full and empty, between reality and altered perception.

The signature “C. Acciari” opens a window onto an author who is still little known in the official critical circuit, but capable of expressing with urgency and authenticity a personal research that mixes abstraction and Mediterranean landscape. It is not a view in the traditional sense, but a deconstructed visual memory, in which color becomes the absolute protagonist and architecture dissolves into a pure visual rhythm.

Exhibited today, Casa d'Ombra e Cobalto presents itself as a vibrant testimony of an artistic season in which the Italian landscape opened up to expressionist contaminations, becoming more of an interior mirror than a simple geographical representation. Acrylic on canvas glued on plywood.