Ennio Morlotti - Rose

Flowers, or plants in general, as independent subjects, began to appear in still lifes, a genre that emerged in the early 17th century. Subsequently, painters, especially the Impressionists, increasingly focused on the world of flowers and plants, as they offered an extraordinary opportunity to capture vibrant colors and light. Thus, flowers and plants were depicted not only in vases, but also immersed in their natural landscape. While initially a pretext for painters to attempt a photographic reproduction of reality, with contemporary art, the subject of flowers and plants also became a way of interpreting reality.

This work is part of a series of etchings in which Morlotti, unlike the abstraction of works categorized as "Late Naturalism," does not adopt an informal aesthetic, but rather focuses on exploring the structure of his subjects, whether human figures or flowers. Indeed, we can see how, in these etchings, Ennio Morlotti emphasizes the plasticity of his subjects, rendering them with a bold graphic style and placing them in a complex, three-dimensional space. Equally complex, however, is the execution, which brings us back to a thoroughly contemporary character in Morlotti's artistic practice. The linework is decidedly dynamic, charged with existential vibrations that permeate the subjects and the space in which they interact.

Ennio Morlotti (Lecco 1910-Milan 1992). In 1937, during a brief stay in Paris, he encountered Cézanne, Fauvism, and the expressionism of Soutine and Georges Rouault. At the Paris International Exhibition, he was deeply impressed by Picasso and his Guernica. Upon returning to Italy, he moved to Milan and enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. He then painted his first works. In 1939, he joined the group of painters of the magazine Corrente with Ernesto Treccani, Renato Guttuso, Renato Birolli, and Bruno Cassinari. After a second stay in Paris in 1947, he participated in the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti and, after the split between Cassinari and Birolli, joined Lionello Venturi's Gruppo degli Otto, founded in 1952 and dissolved in 1954. Representative of a sort of informal and lyrical naturalism, his favorite subjects are landscapes, still lifes, and nudes.

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