Alberto Sughi - Figure of a Woman

Portraiture is one of the most widespread artistic expressions, especially in painting, but also in sculpture, throughout the ages. Portraiture is, first and foremost, a description of the subject depicted, an attempt to capture their physiognomy and individual characteristics truthfully and naturally. With the progressive evolution of artistic research, the physiognomic description of the subject has also been accompanied by a psychological one. Therefore, over the centuries, portraiture has also become a means of introspective investigation of the subject, their character, and their state of mind. The processes of abstraction brought about by contemporary art have contributed to this type of investigation.

Alberto Sughi's artistic poetics recurs in most of his works. The depicted subject, in fact, has an exquisitely symbolic and existential connotation, displaying a paucity of physiognomic details, of objective particulars that might identify the situation or even place it within a social context. Sughi's existentialist art is not interested in external reality, but rather in the person's interior, which the artist explores through his expressive means. The pictorial deformations that characterize Sughi's paintings are a means of expressing his existentialist anxieties. The subject is pervaded by emotional vibrations; however, compared to other works where expressionist language prevails, in this piece Sughi seems driven by a greater desire to exalt the plastic qualities of the human figure.

Alberto Sughi, Cesena 1928 – Bologna 2012, always chose the path of realism throughout his painting career. However, Sughi's realism never had a social orientation; rather, its focus shifted to the human condition, to human solitude: this is why Sughi's painting has been described as "existentialist realism." In the 1960s, Sughi's realism was influenced by Bacon, presenting distortions in his subjects and spatial settings similar to those of the English artist.

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