Athos Faccincani - Positano

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 a major aspiration for artists of every era. 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; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism.

The work is a typical example of Athos Faccincani's landscapes, inspired by coastal towns like Portofino, Capri, and Santorini, or, as in this case, the landscape of Positano. Faccincani's composition is primarily based 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. Color shapes objects, and houses, flowers, and streets appear in essential forms, like patches of compact color. The space appears compressed and two-dimensional, resulting in the entire composition being resolved through 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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