Enea Garagnani - Luigino

Portraiture is one of the most widespread artistic expressions, especially in painting, but also in sculpture, throughout the ages. Portraiture is, first and foremost, a description of the subject depicted, an attempt to capture their physiognomy and individual characteristics truthfully and naturally. With the progressive evolution of artistic research, the physiognomic description of the subject has also been accompanied by a psychological one. Therefore, over the centuries, portraiture has also become a means of introspective investigation of the subject, their character, and their state of mind. The processes of abstraction brought about by contemporary art have contributed to this type of investigation.

The painting is part of a series of works in which Enea Garagnani's painting style displays an exquisitely naive approach. The painter's deliberate pursuit of simplicity is immediately apparent on a formal level: the space is two-dimensional, the perspective intuitive, the subjects synthetic. The painter consciously adopts primitivist or infatilistic means of expression to express his own ideal of simplicity. Garagnani finds his own way to return to the purity of an intimate and simple domestic existence.

Enea Garagnani was a painter and gallery owner from Bologna, born in 1905. His works have been exhibited in various exhibitions in Italy (Forlì 1969, Faenza 1970, Terni 1971, Spoleto 1972, Castelfranco Emilia 1973, Florence 1972, Massa Carrara 1971 and 1973, Reggio Emilia 1974, Bussolengo 1975, Milano Marittima 1975). Several paintings are held in the municipality of La Maddalena in Sardinia, in Spain, Greece, the USA, France, Morocco, and Tunisia. Other works are held in private collections in Bologna.

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