Franco Durante as an artist

“ I think that geometry represents order and cleanliness of things, of thought and in general of life itself. Consequently, simplifying shapes and reducing the number of components are the bases of my painting, whose colour palette, which is often monochromatic, is a continuous research of matter and of its interaction with light.”

(Franco Durante)

ABOUT FRANCO DURANTE

"...Franco Durante belongs to those artists that have been looking for this singularity of the shape and that, in the same time, have always been feeling the necessity to communicate through images to awake emotions[...]You don't dislike that his painting brings to mind some of the greatest master, such as: Mondrian,Kandinsky and Klee". (Salvatore Maugeri, 1991)

"...Durante is a thoroughly anomalous personality in today's artistic panorama. He does not appear to be touched by the lost directions, the uncertainties, the weakness of the 'post-modern condition'." (Luciano Caramel, 1998)

"....architecture in the space are, of-fact, the singular abstract sculptures of Durante[...] His attitude of 'faber' artist is visible in the care used in selecting materials for the artistic employment, that are not deaf and hostile materials clashing with the shape to deny it, but an instrument, to bring it alive and luminous. The research of the cromatic effects that the pigments show according to different supports on which they adhere, is sharp. On cloth, burlap, wood, metal, with acrylics color he uses clay powder, copper, iron and bronze and the 'cocciopesto' to give substance to the painting."(Giuliano Menato, 2004)