While the guiding principles of Paolo Perfranceschi’s painting are easily identifiable—the great Italian tradition, a commitment to figurative art, and the prominence of color—the artist has adapted them within various contexts and applications.

Perfranceschi does not like to reproduce or repeat himself. His guiding principles are reinterpretation, transformation/distortion, and variation on a theme. Throughout his career, he has experimented with numerous tools and techniques (casein paint, natural pigments, acrylics, etc.) and drawn from varied sources of inspiration, exploring subjects as diverse as motherhood, the nude, secular and sacred art, and landscapes (natural, urban, and dreamlike).

Particularly since the 2020s, painting has become for Perfranceschi a meeting ground for different art forms: the canvas is a stage where artistic expressions engage in dialogue and interpenetrate. In these postmodern-flavored experiments, the classical and the contemporary collide, giving rise to an impossible synthesis akin to surrealism. Her latest series of paintings, Mythologica, presents itself as a modern and personal reinterpretation of Greek mythology in which the artist creates a hybrid of literature, music videos, and pop culture.

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