Oil painting on canvas, 20th century, Italian school, depicting "Via del Carbone (Reggio Emilia)". Dimensions inside the frame: 50x70 cm. Dimensions including frame: 93x73 cm. Signed bottom right and authenticated on the back by Remo Parise. The artwork is in good condition. Remo Parise was born in Vicenza on October 11, 1916, and died in Bologna on January 10, 1996, where he lived and worked. He began his artistic training at the Bologna School of Art in 1930 and later attended the Academy of Fine Arts in the same city from 1969 to 1971. He held exhibitions in several Italian cities, achieving significant success both with the public and critics alike. His paintings, through images drawn deep from memory, tell stories of distant events with accents of captivating poetry. A recurring theme is the Bologna of his youth, with its distinctive corners, luminous reflections, and ancient characters frozen in episodes often tinged with the suggestive allure of fairy tales. Nighttime scenes particularly enhance the sentimental value of his paintings, with sparse settings resembling "an orchestra (as described by Morello) of chiaroscuro, sometimes precise, sometimes suffused in a thousand shades of soft seafoam spread over things." "Every minute (as written by Michele Fuoco) that the author has lived falls into a dark reserve, into an apparent oblivion where he lets it sink. It seems that only what can be useful to his art remains." And from these memories arise the images; the narrative unfolds in multiple parts, rediscovering distant and not forgotten feelings without any rhetoric, thus becoming a profound opportunity for authentic spiritual verification. Parise's work particularly proposes realities of love and peace, aiming not "to search (as Cucci writes) for lost time, but for the best, perhaps unnoticed past of that time." A reality still quite clear to the painter, whom he returns to easily, appropriating it in its fundamental episodic and sentimental aspects, thereby offering pictorial syntheses that are both pleasing and deeply personal. Painting, therefore, serves as an opportunity to recover distant facts and values presented through figurative pretexts that, despite the multiplicity of descriptive proposals, maintain constant references to the reality of a past transcribed with love and suggestive poetry.
