Dario Chiericallo - Extragalactic Woman

The human figure has always been at the center of artistic research. Since the classical age, the naturalistic rendering of human anatomy has been a primary goal of painters and sculptors throughout history. The representation of the female figure is an expression of this aspiration, which spans all eras and stylistic trends. Indeed, in addition to the naturalistic interpretations of the Renaissance and various classicisms, which aimed for a truthful and detailed representation of the human body, the female figure has also been a central figure in the new aesthetic concepts brought about by the historical avant-garde movements, such as Cubism, Expressionism, and Surrealism. The present work is part of the pictorial phase, between 1975 and 1980, in which Dario Chiericallo created a series of female figures, spectral and from another dimension (as the painter himself defined them), in which he refined his aesthetic between Expressionism and Surrealism.

This portrait, like Dario Chiericallo's other works from the same period, is characterized by the development of a strongly expressionist language. The artist seeks to go beyond what is perceived by the senses to extrapolate the true essence of the subject and convey it on canvas in a visionary and surreal way. For this reason, through the application of color, he develops a highly synthesised process that reduces the subject to dense, material layers of paint, in which the painter's emotions are also central, conveyed through his gestures (Chiericallo's technique of applying paint in relief directly from the tube is typical). What emerges is an interior portrait of the subject, essential and of archaic expressive power. All of this is rooted in the influences of psychoanalysis that guide Chiericallo's research. The female figure is almost a negative image that inverts reality into a surreal vision through the artist's characteristically acidic and aggressive chromatic range.

Dario Chiericallo was born in Milan in 1938. By the early 1960s, he was already exhibiting in Milan's most prestigious galleries alongside painters such as Carrà, Crippa, De Chirico, De Pisis, Balla, and Fontana. In particular, the profound introspection that accompanies the suffering and cries of his subjects has made him, by unanimous recognition, one of the most important interpreters of the complex issues of psychoanalysis in painting. The vast number of his collectors and admirers, and their geographical distribution, bears eloquent witness to this. Today, Dario Chiericallo's paintings can be found in public and private collections, museums, and galleries around the world: Milan, Rome, Venice, Florence, London, New York, Los Angeles, Prague, Paris, Boston, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Buenos Aires, Vienna, and Montreal.

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