Alfio Rapisardi - Untitled

The "Still Life" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consisted of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to experiment with naturalistic or photographic reproductions of reality, with contemporary art, the "Still Life" also became a way of interpreting reality. Indeed, as happened, for example, in the Cubist avant-garde or in Giorgio Morandi, the in-depth exploration of objects was aimed at a conceptual representation, taken beyond the mere sensory aspect.

The style of artist Alfio Rapisardi is the result of a refined blend of tradition and avant-garde. Alfio Rapisardi's research draws on the tradition of Italian painting, specifically Tuscan Renaissance art, but he adapts this tradition to entirely contemporary representational themes. The legacy of the Renaissance in Alfio Rapisardi is found in the rational spirit that guides the development of his compositions. Rapisardi's works are the result of a perfect balance of shapes and colors, arranged with a profound sense of geometry. Within the overall structure of the work, everything is governed by a rational spirit, but this rationality is also expressed in a thorough analysis of the subjects that draws on contemporary artistic influences. Indeed, the objects are broken down, almost laid out in a complex space that harks back to Cubism. Furthermore, everything is subjected to a remarkable synthesis that abstracts the forms, always in the same geometric and rationalist spirit that characterizes all of Alfio Rapisardi's work.

Alfio Rapisardi was a Florentine artist born in 1929 and passed away in 2018. His career officially began in 1956 with a solo exhibition at the Strozzina gallery. In 1960 and 1962, he participated in the Fiorino exhibition. He won the competition to create the altarpiece for the Scolopi church. His works are exhibited at the Kessel Museum alongside artists such as Gauguin, Cézanne, and Picasso.

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