Elvio Arancio is a multifaceted artist who moves with ease between Arab and Western cultures, echoing them in each other, amalgamating them, contaminating them with an unmistakable style, inexhaustible inspiration and passion.
His journey through Art recalls the comings and goings of the waves, the waves of the Mediterranean that brought him from one of his lives to the other, which at each shore stops to meet the "Spiritus Loci", the Soul of Place, to collect the precious breath of life to be blown into his works.
Elvio Arancio has gradually taken possession of this wealth, precisely by observing the refined symbolism of Arab and Near Eastern art, with its elegant and harmonious decorative motifs of symmetrical geometries or repetitive floral figures; the artist expresses in his works, as well as a great technical mastery, a philosophical and spiritual depth which is what makes the difference between craftsmanship and art.
Each trait, in Arancio's work, has its own specific meaning: a shape that can symbolically represent something else; a color that alludes to different themes depending on the nuances and tone.
There is a color for the divine (turquoise) and a color for transformation, a color for earthly life and a color for thought.
Its prayer niches, sometimes mirrors, allow those who place themselves in front of it to meditate on themselves and on the meaning of their own existence. Of course, you need to have a vigilant conscience and an open mind, because we may be tempted to see only the outward beauty of these works.
It is also true that simple external beauty, which is balance and harmony, has the power to reconcile us and make the world better.
The works of Elvio enchant and speak to the heart and spirit of distant but not far worlds, of dreamed and at the same time real beauties, of sky and earth, of sea and desert in a riot of shapes, colors and echoes, of music. For Elvio Arancio, art represents: "the happy attempt to express beauty, he believes that everyone, in their specificities, should fulfill this task, since generating, building, expressing beauty means loving. Love the Creation and all its Creatures ”.
