Antonio Carta - Untitled

The iconography of this work certainly has allegorical meanings and can be defined, in some ways, as symbolist precisely because of its allusion to underlying meanings. It is a type of subject that can be traced back to the artistic language of late nineteenth-century painters such as Moreau, Bocklin, or Puvis des Chavannes, who, despite using a substantially figurative language, developed intellectually complex iconographies, full of symbolic and allegorical references.

This print is a prime example of Antonio Carta's artistic language, based on a simplification of phenomenal reality in an almost surreal way. In this case, the artist creates an impossible space: the walls indicate an illogical perspective and the road follows an implausible curve. The bold black lines and the almost illustration-like style of the representation are characteristic.

Antonio Carta was born in Vicenza in 1928. He worked until his thirties as a laborer and craftsman and was a self-taught artist. He later became an art teacher in private and state schools. In 1989, the city of Vicenza dedicated a major retrospective exhibition to him.

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