Italian painting "Green Energies", mixed technique, 80x130 cm, Stefano Iannone 2011

In his paintings, master Stefano Iannone idealizes a future as uncertain as it is joyful, unsettling because it is unknown, yet simultaneously calming and "heavenly." The material gains a combative strength, with intense patches and bright colors, almost like fire, and from the same hypnotic fervor, his cosmic cities are born: a megametropolis where the observer, almost enchanted, traverses pristine and desert spaces.
The Neapolitan master, using a "mixed technique" and sometimes employing various materials, transforms the project of a perfect society into art projected into an undefined spacetime dimension, where people should be able to achieve fully happy coexistence, because "above all, we must learn not to fear utopia, because every progress of humanity was a utopia before it became a reality, that is, before it matured to the point of realization."