Antonio Zambrella (Lucanino) - The Red Bush

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been an artist's aspiration throughout the centuries. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance, then with atmospheric rendering in the sixteenth century, up until the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism.

Lucanino's landscape style presents a perfect fusion of realism and a delicate, impressionistic rendering of sensory details. On the one hand, the artist precisely describes the view in all its details, with a strong sense of reality and the everydayness of simple life. On the other, his refined painting technique allows him to convey a sense of immediacy to the canvas, thanks to rapid brushstrokes charged with atmospheric vibrations. Light thus reverberates on objects, yet without interfering with the precise depiction of reality. This work is part of a series of landscapes in which the scene is consistently immersed in a red tonality with expressionistic overtones.

Antonio Zambrella, known as Lucanino, was born in Bernalda in 1934. Here he began his early career as a sculptor, honing his skills over time by modeling clay. He recreated faces and objects he found around him before turning to drawing and painting as a teenager. Upon reaching Emilia-Romagna, he met his future wife. Zambrella presented Basilicata in over 120 exhibitions around the world. The Italian Academy of Arts, Letters and Sciences in Salsomaggiore awarded him the gold medal in 1978. In 1982, he received the New York Prize, the Washington Oscar in Milan in 1984, and the Golden Pantheon in Bologna. The artist passed away in the Emilian capital in 2020.

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