Salvatore Zofrea Distance in the Midday Light
These paintings have no hint of the pandemic turmoil that has affected peoples and economies locally and around the world. Indeed, there are no humans or their made structures. Slight hints of paths, farmed land and introduced fauna are suggested in many of the landscapes, but these elements are secondary to Zofrea’s celebration of light and colour.
If one were abandoned in these paintings it would be difficult tell whether one was in the eastern morning light, or the, 2019-20, and the sensual rolling hills with trees gently touched by the light, , 2019-20, are images of luscious land and giving skies. Whereas in the painting , 2019-20, land and sky are about to be formed with the rising light. This exquisite painting says so much about Zofrea’s love of nature, of creation; so intimate yet so distant as to be quite past our reach. In this diminutive work it’s as if we have been given access to another world.
