Antonio Ligabue - Cat with Kite

The sculpture is part of a series that pays homage to great artists by creating gold-plated silver bas-reliefs from prototypes produced by the painters themselves. In this case, the bas-relief celebrates the art of the great master Antonio Ligabue, depicting one of his famous subjects, a cat confronting a bird of prey. The subject is typical of the Emilian painter, whose spontaneous and instinctive explorations were often inspired by the wild spirit of animals, both exotic and domestic.

The bas-relief has the merit of translating the spirit of Antonio Ligabue's art into the third dimension. In his simplification of reality, Ligabue simultaneously grasps its complexity. For this reason, the subject is synthesized in a two-dimensional space, yet simultaneously constructed through a complex system of lines that takes into account both the volume and the dynamism of the depicted scene. This system of lines also moves across different planes, compensating for the spatial two-dimensionality and recreating it on a conceptual level. In the bas-relief, the animal protagonists seem to emerge from the work's space in a perfectly naturalistic rendering.

The work was created from a prototype by Antonio Ligabue, a painter born in Zurich in 1899 and who died in Gualtieri in 1965. His entire life was marked by frequent nervous breakdowns. He was hospitalized for the first time in 1917, later expelled from Switzerland and taken to Gualtieri, his relatives' hometown. For a long time, he lived as a beggar on the margins of society, until he got a job on a construction site on the banks of the Po. It was during this period that he began painting. It was the critic Renato Marino Mazzacurati who recognized his potential and guided him towards his own self-realization. His first solo exhibition was held in Rome in 1961. He is considered one of the leading exponents of Naive painting.

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