Aldo Andreolo - View of a Venetian Canal

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and the Modern Era, but predominantly in an idealized manner. Scenes of city life became typical themes with a more realistic interpretation starting in the 19th century. It's worth remembering how, immediately following the realist movements of the 19th century, the Impressionists also placed great emphasis on the everyday, on everyday life, with a certain predilection, however, for the frenetic pace of the city, its crowds, traffic, and typically bourgeois settings.

Aldo Andreolo's interpretation of reality can be classified as a metaphysical aesthetic. What is reproduced is plausibly and plausibly realistic, but the modes of interpretation suggest a suspended atmosphere, frozen in time. A situation, therefore, poised between reality and surreality, charged with mystery and enigma. Aldo Andreolo's works, in fact, are the product of an aesthetic based on uncompromising rationality. The composition is structured on a system of pure lines, impossible in nature, which create a spatial box, whose orthogonal layout, conventional perspective, the painter delights in displaying. Within this scenario, imbued with geometry and rationality, the buildings of the Venetian shore appear, immobile and stylized, as if they themselves were the product of the process of geometric synthesis that underpins the entire work. Typical of Andreolo is the light color palette, tending toward a bright white.

Aldo Andreolo was born in Venice in 1926 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts there in 1949. Throughout his career, he exhibited extensively, making his work known in Italy and abroad, in cities such as London, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Paris, Geneva, Basel, Munich, Mannheim, Lübeck, The Hague, Brussels, and Vienna. His artistic language, initially in the 1950s, was characterized by a highly textured, gestural expressionist style. This was followed by the series of abandoned cars, newsstands, and beaches, in which the women who are the protagonists of his works appear, immersed in long meditations or awaiting mysterious events.

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