When talking about the artist Gentile Polo, one can not help but associate it with pure color: yellow, magenta, blue. The painter, after a long experience of volunteering in Ethiopia, has understood that colors are not perceived everywhere as our "Western" world understands them. From this new awareness began a thorough study of the perception of color starting from its fundamentals. Among his latest experiments he was born on a rainy day "And the smoke rises": the basic design is treated with sepia-colored chine, which I had given myself to Mr. Gentile Polo on one occasion (crossing his fingers, because an artist who has a whole life of tools to paint what can be given again?), while the areas of light have been retouched with lands diluted in watercolor in the three basic colors. The spotted effect is a further detail that, from the artist's story, is the result of momentary inspiration using coarse salt scattered over the color to make it easier to dry from the excess color. The watercolor by the Gentile Polo artist measures 50x35 cm. While I was measuring it, it was interesting to examine it also for a detail in the back of the work: on the back of the sheet some author's notes on the color that I would like to report below are checked:
"And the smoke goes up" 2018 Dear Polo Translucent: each color overlaps holding his personality of brilliance It is not anymore when this constant fails. That is towards saturation of the color each color covers the other changing the perception volumes in relation to how each field is compared to the others.
(Lucia Martorelli - Gentile Polo Art Studio)