Athos Faccincani - The Mask Tells the Story of Venice

The painting can be defined as a genre scene, that is, the depiction of an episode of everyday life that, apparently, lacks any significant element. These types of domestic subjects were long considered minor and only began to spread in Western art starting in the 17th century. Only with the development of 19th-century realism did everyday subjects become considered as important as historical or religious ones.

The work is a typical example of Athos Faccincani's subjects, inspired by coastal towns such as Portofino, Capri, Santorini, or Venice. Faccincani's composition is based primarily on the distribution of color, with bright, almost Fauvist hues and a richness of light. This also underlies the artist's emphasis on flowers and vegetation, often in the foreground. Objects take shape through color. Houses, flowers, and streets appear in essential shapes, like patches of compact color. Space is almost nonexistent, so the entire composition resolves itself in an interlocking of objects attempting to arrange themselves on different planes.

The painter Athos Faccincani was born in Peschiera del Garda in 1951. His artistic career is distinguished by an initial, more expressionist phase, in which he painted a dark world, filled with suffering. It was a time when Faccincani frequented prisons and psychiatric hospitals to express this suffering. In his more recent phase, he has instead devoted himself to sun-drenched landscapes, which he creates in a style tending toward a more cheerful expressionism, close to Fauvism.

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