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About Licio
Passon
To comprehend
the artistic life of Licio Passon you can¡¦t neglect his belonging to his
homeland of the Friuli region and his truest and most profound values of a
rustic life that he has made his own and not revisited as a faded memory.
The people who
have formed him have been his parents who well knew the hardship of the fields.
The same fields that to the eyes of a little boy, born in the second half of the
¡¥60s, appeared as a treasure chest where there were hidden fruit, berries,
flowers and little animals; a real world to discover and to understand in every
little detail, but also to fix on a drawing sheet to limti its fugacity.
Since then
Passon has never left his paintbrushes and colours to follow his artistic
calling though not neglecting his technical studies. He hasn¡¦t abandoned
painting even during a working period which has also contributed to develop his
ability of observation and an extraordinary meticulousness, destined thanks to
the following knowledge of expressive means to let his talent emerge. All this
has confirmed Passon as an artist and he has been recognized even Overseas as
¡§pictor optimus¡¨ for the skillfulness that his kind of work requires in
adherence to reality, which to be represented needs the exercise of some
indispensable skills among which there are persistance, will of learning, love
for application and study, complete dedication.
The knowledge of
the great artists of the past, the will to risk in order to copy their work, the
participation to great international events linked to art, the growing success,
even abroad, of collectionists and art galleries have all made Passon in the
last years to completely dedicate himself to painting in his studio in
Campoformido, where an abundant collection of works were born whose elaboration
requests attention, ability and taste for colour.
The predilection
of the artist for all that is connected with what is calm, harmonious, Beauty
results in a choice that is really nonconformist, to the extent of being
provocatory for wanting to realise what for many people is indispensable:
painting a reality that is more convincing than the real one and for that
nonetheless captivating from the original.
The
techniques
It was a long
time ago when Passon still young apprehended the technique of coating
practicing with tempera on cardboard that, for their quick realisation, everyone
admired. Soon Passon turned to oil on canvas experimenting the endless
possibilities of colour and the brightness that is characteristic.
Nowadays Passon
makes his drawings ( mainly portraits, still life, foreshortened views of
Venice, and various compositions) on ready made plates, with the bottom of
coloured chalk based on the different pigments that will be then used. The
subsequent texture is then smoothed to obtain an even surface without any
unevenness so that the pencil can best trace the signs that will give way to
every composition.
In various
portraits Passon uses mixed techniques with gold foil to personally elaborate
the background that sometimes from narrative it becomes decorative to underline
the psychological and introspective research of the person portrayed.
Observing the
actual paintings of Passon you can notice that the texture of the colour
considers every need of the subject; the smooth and velvety strokes accent the
game of transparencies while the thick and bold ones or those with some
roughness result decisive in simulating particular aspects of every single
painting as happens with the plastering of some old Venetian palace.
The passing of
time will give every single painting a special feeling that will exalt the
nuances of colour and in the same time will even out every composition.
The works of
Licio Passon face Time, in the incomparable splendour of their colours, where he
combines a happy mixture of resemblances and shapes, memories and emotions,
destined to never end.
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