{"product_id":"antonio-santacroce-volto","title":"Antonio Santacroce - Face","description":"\u003cp\u003e The work is part of a series of subjects in which Antonio\u003cbr\u003e\n Santacroce focuses on the study of the human figure. His main interest\u003cbr\u003e\n lies in the fact that the figures are interpreted by Santacroce with the\u003cbr\u003e\n peculiarity of his aesthetics, deriving from a mix of quotationism, surrealism\u003cbr\u003e\n and metaphysics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e As regards the style, Antonio Santacroce is always aimed at\u003cbr\u003e\n experiment with a synthetic language. The figures, in fact, are outlined by a\u003cbr\u003e\n very elegant pictorial layout that investigates the volumes in a form, however,\u003cbr\u003e\n vibrant and dynamic. The artist's skill lies in his strong personality.\u003cbr\u003e\n which he manages to give to these figures through the essentiality of the pictorial medium.\u003cbr\u003e\n The palette is also fundamental and is expressed with light glazes,\u003cbr\u003e\n harmonious and balanced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eAntonio Santacroce was born in Rosolini in 1945. In 1963 he obtained a\u003cbr\u003e\n gold medal for painting at the Gemmellaro Institute of Catania. In 1969, he\u003cbr\u003e\n he moved to Rome, where he came into contact with Swiss artists including J.\u003cbr\u003e\n Gachnang introduced him to the world of engraving. Having moved to Switzerland,\u003cbr\u003e\n He worked as a laborer at the Wohlen ironworks. He returned to Catania in 1971.\u003cbr\u003e\n study the history of art, mathematics and geometry, to deepen\u003cbr\u003e\n the “harmonic proportions” that he will implement in his artistic works.\u003cbr\u003e\n He teaches at the Art High School of Catania and engraves his first etchings and\u003cbr\u003e\n aquatints on a Brissè press. He travels to Germany and Switzerland, studying\u003cbr\u003e\n great artists such as Bellmer, Kollwitz, Klee and Kandinsky. In 1989 he taught at\u003cbr\u003e\n Zurich Art School of the Kantonsschule Freudenberg and since 1991 he has lived and\u003cbr\u003e\n works between Switzerland and Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rizzo Ezio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56218350190978,"sku":"ERIZ004","price":600.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/Volto_d9b5f715-60ba-45e7-990c-fc1bf290f36c.jpg?v=1768472958","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/antonio-santacroce-volto","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}