Horses and Snow

“The great light, within the chromaticism, eliminates the mid-tones and places the accent upon pure colour. D’Accardi prefers pure colour and uses it with absolute value, in an artistic procedure that is not analysis, acting almost violently.
The painter lays out backgrounds that, apparently, have no vibrations but that, if looked at like his drawing, are rich in reflections, suggestions, enchantments. And apparently, a tangent escape towards abstract painting.
But, on the contrary, colour represents an objective reality and it is precisely its freshness, perhaps later elaborated, that transports us into the wave of fascination that d’Accardi exerts.
Inside the unreal wing of diffused light, the contours of the characters and stories stand out, created by the artist’s imagination, like arabesques of absolute purity.”

L’Eco, 1976