Sweeping movements and vivacious colors invite the eye to participate in the engaging visual dance that is the experience of viewing one of Marco Antonio Didu’s masterful oil paintings. Playful yet serious, complex yet refreshingly uncomplicated, his works are a thought-provoking study in contrasts. Employing a refined palette of expertly mixed colors, Didu’s paintings are characterized by an irrepressible effervescence and perceptive use of line and shape. 
Working in both representational and abstracted styles, Didu continuously explores the possibilities of rendering the human figure. Representational, almost classicizing paintings display his adept hand, while simplified arrangements of intriguing shapes reveal his experimental side. Deceptively simple at first glance, Didu’s abstracted, almost minimalistic paintings produce a harmonious, yet asymmetrical balance that lends the paintings their musical quality. And upon more meticulous inspection, Didu’s paintings reveal themselves as new interpretations of figurative representation.

By reducing the figure to its most essential shapes, flattening the picture plane, and reinventing his subjects with new colors, Didu revives an age-old style with a fresh and inspired approach. 
A largely self-taught artist, Marco Antonio Didu initially honed his craft in the great academic style, by copying the works of the Masters. Having exhibited to critical acclaim in his native Italy, Didu lives and works in Bologna.

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