Esperia Gava - Untitled

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been a constant aspiration for painters. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance; then with atmospheric rendering in the sixteenth century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism.

The work is a clear example of an expressionist landscape. Reality is interpreted in an extremely synthetic manner, with an exercise in reduction that seeks to reach the purest essence of the landscape. The surface is completely two-dimensional, with almost no spatial depth. The brushstrokes delineate the forms in a very instinctive manner. Delving even further into detail, we can see how Esperia Gava describes the view with a series of almost gestural marks, creating a dense impasto that transfigures her perception of nature into the paint. Thus, the application of color is dense and material, and although the language used in this work is synthetic and expressionist, Esperia Gava's vision remains connected to phenomenal reality, to its vibrations of light and atmosphere, in a pictorial process that takes the premises of Impressionist and plein air art to their extreme consequences.

Esperia Gava (1916), an Italian painter of the early 20th century, began painting in 1931 under the guidance of master Dall'Oca. In 1937 she was forced to move to Toulon (France), where she continued painting, participating in various painting competitions with excellent results. In 1945 she moved to Rome, continuing her artistic training under the guidance of master sculptor Turillo Sindoni. Shy of publicity and attached to her family, she continued to work for several years, producing very few, highly demanding works, mostly intended for a small circle of acquaintances. Her works appear in private collections in Italy and abroad.

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