Another occasion i have way of speaking, speaking of the job of Franco Testa, of specific visual , of homogenize of the image, The recent paintings seem to confirm this address, that then other is not exasperated that recognition of the style, rather of "one" style to be assumed on which to build a whole pictorial discourse her methodic privileged by frank head it is the synthesis. the procedure resembles to a gradual despoliation of the model only - for the more its natural habitat, the hills Picene with some insertion of monumental structures - that a contextual subtraction of figurative elements provokes up to define a vision articulated on geometric forms resulted primary.The it is a hybrid invention, suspended as it is between the guessed landscape datum and the certain abstracted formula or however abstraction. For engraved, that the work of Head must be recognized it hears again, even if unconsciously, of that that I would like to call her/it "School of Ascoli", movement that, under denomination different and at times confused, you/he/she has planned around the years '80 a fed theoretical and operational program direct note to the mutual reconversion of realistic-objective factors and analytical-soggettivi.Ma Testa doesn't owe as loci to the genius allows him an instinctive and interlocutory curiosity. Because its objective stays the formal experience, it had to cost him the renouncement to the contents and the congelation of the emotions. The figure riassuntiva of today, that appears even more shut of once it tries him/it,: I record iconic and chromatic they have the tendency to ri-define in key "purist" this inactive and uninhabited universe, as if the artist wanted to individualize a dialectics,
to contrast values basic.As the clear and recurrent layouy to undulate, all played onthe range of the greens, you/he/she becomes sign of the ethnic memory, while the shattering of the visual plan in segments kaleidoscopic brings the reading of the work to a perceptive denominator that implicates as a look "artificial" on the reality; an approach that it exalts the invisible dynamics of it, in the moment in which fixed in the same linguistic area the dominion of the retina and that of the thought.
Giuliano Serafini
