Jaime Moreno Villarreal

Anyone who sees Zesatti’s work believes that a photograph is printed on the canvas; anyone who pauses discovers that it is a perfect hyperrealist painting. It is like looking, through a window, at the most dazzling natural landscape, yet rendered by the brush of a virtuoso.

Zesatti is an artist who, like the Romantics before him, pays homage to the contemplation of nature and its magnificence. Just as in the natural world every being has its precise place, form, and dimension, the same occurs in Zesatti’s work.

Throughout his career he has painted each of the elements of nature. He has devoted series and collections to river water, seas, stones, trees, mangroves, hills, deserts, tropical vegetation, palm trees, coconuts. Every leaf is perfect, every mountain grand. They always appear alone, without the intervention or presence of humankind. They—the elements of nature—are the protagonists of his work.

Zesatti began painting as a pastime. He studied business administration and became self-taught, first in oil, then in India ink, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic.

He describes himself as an obsessive man, and the excess of detail in his painting proves it. He paints with the first light of day, without stopping and with music playing in the background, in a studio that those who have visited describe as clean and orderly.

His canvases, across the full range of greens, blues, and browns, convey to the viewer the same sense of cleanliness, order, and tranquility; they are a reverence for the landscape, an opportunity to appreciate nature in its smallest detail, in its perfection, in its cosmic order.