Ciccio Capasso - Untitled

The "Still Life" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consisted of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to experiment with naturalistic or photographic reproductions of reality, with contemporary art, the "Still Life" also became a way of interpreting reality. Indeed, as happened, for example, in the Cubist avant-garde or in Giorgio Morandi, the in-depth exploration of objects was aimed at a conceptual representation, taken beyond the mere sensory element. The painting in question features a still life inspired by the theme of hunting.

From an analysis of this work, we can see how it is characterized by an artistic language that takes Impressionism to its extreme, seeking to evoke images through a lyricism of memory. Ciccio Capasso is a true master of color, capable of infusing life into his subjects with a single brushstroke. His touch is synthetic yet, at the same time, rich with vibrations and existential thrills. In this sense, Ciccio Capasso's evolution of Impressionist technique should be interpreted as the poetry of life. Each brushstroke registers chromatic and luminous vibrations, simultaneously infusing an unstoppable vital energy even in a static subject like a still life.

Ciccio Capasso was an artist from Scisciano (NA), where he was born in 1922 and died in 1993.
He trained at the school of Striccoli and Giarrizzo, then of Monteleone and Rega. After the war, he joined the Gruppo Sud, alongside other high-caliber artists including Venditti and Barisani. He later distanced himself from mainstream culture and worked and developed his multifaceted artistic career in the studio/workshop in Scisciano, which also served as a hotbed of new artists who became his students, many of whom included Vittorio Avella. He taught Figure and Modeled Ornamentation at the Art School in Naples. He distinguished himself as both a painter and a sculptor, also inventing the graffiti technique on plaster.

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