Dawn

Dawn marks the start of a new direction for the London-based Italian contemporary artist, Thion. Best-known for his candy-colored acrylics paintings this new series of black ink drawings and prints displays an unprecedented elegance and simplicity. With an eye for the body's erogenous zones worthy of Tom of Finland, but with none of Tom's overbearingness, Thion articulates the human form, its curves and creases, as never before. Likewise, leaves and trees, rocks and flowers, mountains, volcanoes, everything acquires a breathtaking new svelteness and clarity. His theme is pastoral; the feeling, classical. The line is spare, light, ethereal, never for a moment forgetting the sexual body and its rootedness in nature, but now in all earnestness gesturing toward something like The Soul.

Patrick E. Horrigan

The view
Ink on Fabriano paper, 50cm x 70cm - London, 2015

Men and the trees
Ink on Fabriano paper, 50cm x 70cm - London, 2015

The Thinker
Ink on Fabriano paper, 50cm x 70cm - London, 2015

Warriors of Peace
Ink on Fabriano paper, 50cm x 70cm - London, 2015