Melo Consoli Biography
Melo Consoli was born in Catania in 1935 and is a painter who has lived and worked in Milan since the 1960s. In this period, he came into contact with the artistic environment of Brera and carried out numerous trips abroad to study and assimilate the most important trends in modern and contemporary art. Consoli's painting includes post-informal elements, but then takes an original and personal direction. Using strong colors enhanced by the physicality and spontaneity of the line, he creates creations that recall the living atmospheres of the Mediterranean landscapes of his youth. The artist creates a real world that is often associated with the vision of nature, to which a strong poetic and metaphorical lyricism is added. Consoli draws in color, structure and spatula, while the brush defines details and quotes. It is a material painting that enhances the colour, shapes and light of nature. The titles of Consoli's works express an intimate pleasure in the homage to nature, transforming natural movements and emotions into chromatic expressions. Light is the protagonist of the painting, in the cyclical change of colors that reveal the metamorphosis of the seasons and, beyond the formal side, underline the evocative meaning. Another common thread in Consoli's works is the space of memory, since he paints what, having aroused profound sensations, he carries in his heart. His native Sicily, the still uncontaminated lagoon of Grado, with the reeds, the rocks and those stretches of sea that are lost in the sky, some landscapes of the Valbrona that connect him to the Lombard naturalism of Piero Giunni, are just some of the painter's artistic ideas . If some works contain references to the coloristic passion of Nicolas De Stael or to the participatory naturalism of some paintings by Ennio Morlotti, his 'Walls' take inspiration from the reading of the poems that Pasolini dedicated to the Roman ruins, the peeling walls, the humidity of the walls encrusted with rosettes and ashlar, opening a range of memories on the plasters that close a piece of time.
