RENATO MUCCILLO
“Distillations”
“I am not a religious man, but to experience being out here at dusk or dawn is a euphoric, religious experience. This is the holy land for me.”
“Distillation best represents what I’m trying to put together here. Extracting the best of all of these moments and putting them into painting. I’m creating 95 percent of these paintings from memory and imagination. I cherry-pick the sweet spots.”
Living on the West Coast of Canada and having parents always found nature to be within arm’s reach. It is something his passion has only grown though his art. “Being outdoors witnessing of nature, how the smallest nuances, life forms, seemingly serendipitously, and observing how nature has perfect ways, regardless of what we do to it. It both invited my desire to re-create and document it artistically in its ever-changing it. It never ceases to
Renato Muccillo’s landscapes have often been compared artists. However, Muccillo’s images remind us how frequently appropriated by man and industry. His paintings are a homage to land that has changed over time because of nature or no longer be seen with larger-than-life themes and dramatic personal memory, full of idealized
We are mesmerized at first by the luxurious colors and near notice the culvert, the pilings, the log booms, or the distant subject matters of his paintings leave us wondering if they life-only the marks left behind
parents who loved outdoor activities, Renato Muccillo has something that has held his fascination since childhood and outdoors definitely shaped me as an artist,” he says. “It’s the forms, grow and survive off each other and work together, has a way of re-creating itself and functioning in almost invited and necessitated my attention, my curiosity and then ever-changing form. That’s what keeps me going back to to hold my attention.”
compared to those of Dutch masters and 19th Century English frequently today’s landscape has been affected and homage to the Canadian landscape he grew up in, and or land development. Constructing landscapes that can dramatic imagery results in a piece that functions similarly to idealized versions of what used to be. near miraculous use of light but, on closer inspection, we distant plume of smoke stacks. Even the farms that serve as they are viable or abandoned as there is no sign of human behind by man and machine.
