Antonio Castellana - Critico d'arte

Franco Volpi, aware of his artistic possibilities, is the author of a painting poised between tradition and modernity with the awareness of having achieved results that increasingly aim to excite and sensitise the observer.


In his works he gives free rein to his impressions and feelings, characterised above all by splendid seascapes but also by still lifes and Hipperealist portraits. The artist works with a refined stroke, in a declination of nuances and tonal counterpoints that animate the subjects he portrays, scrutinising their souls with a precise balance between the lightness of the contours and the boundless projection of forms. Moreover, he expresses in an incisive way the concept of idealised beauty above all through its hidden and intrinsic world to bring us back to a universe where there is no room for improvisation, but which makes us reflect closely our memories and our innermost thoughts.


In his painting, passion and fantasy blend harmoniously through delicate, soft, sharp touches that give originality and prominence to the details in a tight atmosphere through his constant artistic research. An emotional imprint, a figuration that pursues realistic translations interpreted in a totally personal way, a painting in which he gives particular prominence to memories revisited by an introspective, curious and meditative look in which, through the constant references to his Sardinia, he recovers the experience of a distant time as evidence of a concreteness in a natural and passionate frame.


And this is the message that Franco Volpi wants to send to those who observe his paintings. The very enthusiasm that the artist puts into his daily work allows us to best appreciate the suggestion that he conveys with his talent and creativity.