marco casentini have a nice day

architecture, billboards, and neon). The painter finds the beauty in such everyday sites
and phenomena, extracting their colors and, utilizing acrylic and alkyd paints, relaying the
experience of them onto canvas. Through his syntactic use of color, texture, and serial grid-
ded patterning, he imbues his compositions each with its own certain pictorial language
that speaks to the feeling of place. The predominant sense one gets from Marco Casentini’s
latest brightly colored and highly active works, created in his new hometown of Hermosa
Beach, is that the artist has indeed made a fresh space for himself and his family—a place
of „California living” infused with cheerfully laid-back optimism.
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