Alberto Falchetti - Still Life

The "Still Life" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consisted of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to experiment with naturalistic or photographic reproductions of reality, with contemporary art, the "Still Life" also became a way of interpreting reality. Indeed, as happened, for example, in the Cubist avant-garde or in Giorgio Morandi, the in-depth exploration of objects was aimed at a conceptual representation, taken beyond the mere sensory element. The artist Alberto Falchetti, like his father Giuseppe, specialized and achieved great fame precisely thanks to the "Still Life" genre. The main themes in his compositions are primarily hunting-related themes, as in the present work.

The style of artist Alberto Falchetti, in his still lifes, as well as in his depictions of animals and landscapes, displays a tendency that could be described as hyperrealist in contemporary art. Indeed, one can discern a desire to objectively and lucidly convey onto the canvas the sensory data before his eyes. Alberto Falchetti possesses a remarkable technique, rigorously classical and academic in its approach, even reminiscent of Flemish painting in the precision with which he reproduces various materials and surfaces and the effects of light falling on them. Despite its objective clarity and while avoiding overly accentuated atmospheric effects, Falchetti's technique is capable of naturally inserting objects into space, with a continuity and indefiniteness of contours. Indeed, the subject is illuminated in a suggestive and theatrical manner, emerging from the neutral background of the gray wall. It is noteworthy that the great attention to compositional balance is always attributable to a classical taste.

Alberto Falchetti was born in Caluso in 1878 to a family of artists. His father Giuseppe—a painter associated with the Piedmontese landscape tradition—introduced him to a love of painting, which he shared with his uncle Michele and his brother Ernesto. Alberto immediately demonstrated great artistic talent and in 1891 he made his debut at the Turin-based Società Promotrice, exhibiting at nearly all of its events over the next few years until 1947. From 1898, he was a member of the Turin Artists' Association until 1939. From 1903 to 1924, he regularly exhibited at the Venice Biennale. While he favored mountain subjects from the Aosta Valley and Biella areas, he also produced marine subjects, animal figures, still lifes, genre scenes, and portraits. He passed away in 1951 in Caluso, where two retrospectives of his work were held in 1952 and 1960.

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