Pendenza #4

For over 30 years, Celentano has made paintings composed entirely of narrow stripes of brilliant color that modulate in intensity and from hue to hue.  I am interested in creating dramatic visual compositions by means of manipulating various relationships between color and shape. . . I intend the painting to be the thing represented. . . By manipulating pigment in a certain way I generate color independent of how it appears in our familiar world of ambient light by removing the illusion of atmosphere, distance and shadow. –Artist statement