Criscuolo gives predominance to his own artistic subjectivity, his emotions that are never concealed or disguised. With rapid brushes he creates varied doughy surfaces that are smooth and yet irregular. His painting is vigorous, excited, and intense. First he deconstructs reality and then recreates it as a unique expression of his inner eye. In the painting, the contrasts between lights and shadows and the use of strong and vivid colors fix the painter’s sensations before the metropolitan and industrial subject that loses its realistic connotations to become pure dialogue between man and space. (Elvira Ramo)
Every subject results paged with care. The colours never shout but they slowly insinuate themselves warm and appropriated to give entirety to the general context of the picture. To succeed in fully appreciating the Criscuolo's work, it's needed to stop to observe how much important is for him to give the correct light to every small stroke that even when it follows one another rapid and quick it always implies a wisely delighted clear drawing… With him the painting stops being model and becomes frame of mind. (P. Ilardi)
Chromatics has the best on drawing; colour is capable of catching light effects that immediately hit the observer’s eye. The painting reveals the painter’s determinate will to entirely fall into the urban reality, although the landscape is reduced to its essential to give space to painting material and brightness of coulour, of which Crisculo is undoubtedly the original master. (Elvira Ramo)
The act of painting for Renato Criscuolo – Neapolitan artist and undoubted master of contemporary art – is idea, sensation, and emotion. Criscuolo manipulates color and our own emotions through the polyhedric interplay of senses and intermediation of visual perception to reach other sensorial areas that might seem less touchable and yet engaging and absorbing. Before a painting by Criscuolo our observation becomes wider until it reaches flavors, music, silence, odors, bewilderments of the soul, joy, uncontrollable or nostalgic flashing, that reveal the supreme intimacy of the painter and his mastery of the canvas. The Caiafa brothers – Giuseppe and Massimo – have always had the dream of owning and promoting Criscuolo’s works. They have started to invest in the Neapolitan painter with the sole intent to nourish their soul. They acted with their heart first, and then with their brain. Confident of Criscuolo’s undisputed and original talent, Caiafa studio is honoured to promote the painter as a sensitive artist in a continuous search for original emotions and atmospheres and also an acute observer and interpreter of contemporary culture. (Elvira Ramo)