{"product_id":"fernando-graziano-senza-titolo","title":"Fernando Graziano - Untitled","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe subjects of the painter Fernando Graziano, despite his highly personal and original production, can be classified within the realm of a metaphysical aesthetic. The artistic movement founded by Giorgio de Chirico is based on the retrieval of images already existing, familiar in the collective imagination, but produces an effect of estrangement through the process of displacement (the sudden appearance of an object outside its usual context) or condensation (the fusion of multiple objects into a single entity). Metaphysical art is also distinguished by the ostentatiously illusory nature of its images. Fernando Graziano's metaphysics, however, takes on a decidedly existentialist connotation; the human figure is central to the Paduan painter's research, yet transfigured in the metaphysical mannequin. His faceless figures often appear in metropolitan and bourgeois settings, demonstrating, in this sense, an affinity with the surrealism of Renè Magritte.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eFernando Graziano's entire iconographic and stylistic exploration draws inspiration from De Chirico's Metaphysical Art. But the mannequins, which in the Greek master were still objects embodying enigmatic and mysterious apparitions, come to life in Graziano, populating a metropolitan world marked by an enigmatic existential solitude. Furthermore, the difference from De Chirico is also evident on a formal level, as Fernando Graziano opts for a more plastic hyperrealism, unlike the dry, illusionistic design of traditional Metaphysical Art, which brings him closer to the work of Marc Kostabi. The material that generates Graziano's metropolitan mannequins is petrified, more lucid, and illuminated by a full light that makes them emit opalescent gleams. Another important element that characterizes Fernando Graziano's artistic language is the fact that this hard material is constructed almost mechanically, in a complex space, reminiscent of the deconstructions of Fernand Léger's Cubism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eFernando Graziano was born in Padua in 1946, where he lives and works. Self-taught, he began participating in group exhibitions and competitions in 1974. He subsequently held numerous solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad, consolidating his artistic career, receiving excellent public, critical, and press acclaim. He has been featured in numerous specialized magazines, local, national, and international press. One of his works was commissioned for the cover of the book \"A Bridge to Cross the Border,\" published under the patronage of the Veneto Regional Council. His works are held in the Church of Sillico, Garfagnana (LU), in the Church of Cristo Re in Effia Kuma, Ghana, and in private and public collections in Italy, Spain, Belgium, and England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brusati Marco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56218009239938,"sku":"MBRU001","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/GRAZIANO-FERNANDO.jpg?v=1768470150","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/fernando-graziano-senza-titolo","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}