Aligi Sassu - White Steeds

A noble animal, a symbol of beauty and harmony, the horse has repeatedly been a prominent subject in the history of art. Since the fourteenth century, its presence has always been obligatory in battle scenes and equestrian monuments, and for painters, depicting it with anatomical precision and naturalistic rendering has always been a challenge.

The work is a striking example of Aligi Sassu's artistic production, which, while remaining figurative, adopts anti-naturalistic forms. In this engraving, too, we can see how the subjects are characterized by expressive deformations that accentuate their dynamism and physical effort. All the lines of the composition are designed to convey to the viewer a sense of frenetic movement and strength. The dynamism of the steeds is further accentuated by the artist's composition, which hinges on a central perspective, which seems to be lost in the infinity of a decontextualized, almost metaphysical space.

Aligi Sassu, born in Milan in 1912 and died in 2000, was a painter and sculptor. His painting efforts focused primarily on the representation of movement and physical strength, which is why the subject of the horse or man on horseback was always congenial to him. In the late 1970s, he and Bruno Munari drafted the pictorial manifesto "Dynamism and Muscular Reform," which called for a return to anti-naturalistic forms in a dynamic sense. Much of his painting, moreover, is inspired by Delacroix and his battles.

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