Concetto Pozzati - Nature en Pose

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 aspect.

Concetto Pozzati's art can be defined as a surrealism dictated, however, by a cold compositional rationality. Even in this still life, for example, we can see how the subject is synthesized through a clear interplay of pure lines on a two-dimensional plane. The result is an extremely elegant graphic work. In the decontextualized white space, the black line traces the subject's forms, while its plastic consistency is evoked with synthetic shading. Equally dissonant, yet with a certain dose of irony and playfulness, typical of Pozzati's art, the single blue leaf stands out from the entire surface. Pozzati's surrealism, in its clean lines and electric colors, also draws on a lively pop influence, and there is a reference to the "poetics of the object" when the leaf itself is isolated as a specimen in itself. Also fundamental is the play by which, through the written word, Pozzati represents his subjects also in the verbal medium.

Concetto Pozzati was born in Vo' in 1935 and passed away in Bologna in 2017. He began his career as an Informal artist, later moving towards Pop Art. His artistic language ultimately settled on a Surrealism with a graphic and rationalist approach. He first participated in the Venice Biennale in 1964, a participation that was followed by four more appearances (in 1972, 1982, 2007, and 2009).

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