What has Davide Coltro sighted? In a Po landscape, toned to yellow, a dozen unidentified objects fall from the sky.
It is not at all a foregone conclusion that these are stylized vases of Amarena Fabbri, but rather they are abstract, smooth and round forms like bells or spacecrafts, huge breasts or whirligigs immersed in a “medium color” created by the author. In fact we have been accustomed for long by this Verona artist to these minimal or serial views, characterized by countless numerical tones and by a color value extracted from the photographed reality. They are landscapes of the soul that encourage us to ponder the relationship between reality and virtual world, between nature and culture. The shots generating this work have a classical character and their peculiarity lies in the transformation of the original photographic image. Using the medium color which becomes a second and new skin to be applied to the skeleton of the image, Coltro shows us a cosmos beyond the canvas. First, he photographs and paints it. However, where does his vision come from? Does the artist see or dream? And if he sees, what fills his sky?