Enzo Gazzone - Figure of a Young 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 nude is the ultimate expression of this aspiration, pervasive across 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 nude has also been a central theme in the new aesthetic concepts brought about by the historical avant-garde movements, such as Cubism, Expressionism, and Surrealism.

In Enzo Gazzone's works, we can see how this painter, even within an academic conception, is attentive to the innovations proposed by contemporary art. Indeed, the naturalistic rendering of the body is achieved through an extraordinary technique that allows for the faithful recording of sensory data. Furthermore, the subject's full forms reveal a precise desire to exalt plasticity. It is in the pictorial application, however, that Gazzone's artistic innovation is fully discernible. His brushstrokes are always dynamic, making the subject's volumes quiver with atmospheric and luminous vibrations. The body's concreteness is further enhanced in a decontextualized, almost abstract space, rendered through the painter's gestural intervention.

Enzo Gazzone was born in San Germano Vercellese in 1894. From 1911 to 1917 he attended the Accademia Albertina in Turin. In 1914 he won First Prize at the School of Figure Drawing, with an accompanying scholarship to the School of Nude Drawing in Venice. In 1929 he participated in the Melbourne International Exhibition with the engraving Decadence, receiving an honorable mention. The following year, 1930, he painted the portrait of the Archbishop of Vercelli, Msgr. Gamberoni. In July he entered the San Remo Painting Prize. In 1940 he organized an exhibition in Vercelli, at Palazzo Centori, where he exhibited with Francesco Giuseppe Rinone. In May 1944 he held a solo exhibition at the Dante Gallery in Milan, exhibiting 63 works, all of which were sold. In 1964 he was named Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, and in 1967 he painted the portrait of Archbishop Msgr. Imberti, still in the Curia. He died on November 11, 1970, at his home in Vercelli.

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