Francesco Caraccio - Untitled

Portraiture is one of the most widespread artistic expressions, especially in painting, but also in sculpture, throughout the ages. Portraiture is, first and foremost, a description of the depicted subject, an attempt to convey their physiognomy and individual characteristics truthfully and naturally. With the progressive evolution of artistic research, the physiognomic description of the subject has also been accompanied by a psychological one. Therefore, over the centuries, portraiture has also become a means of introspective investigation of the subject, their character, and their state of mind. The processes of abstraction brought about by contemporary art have contributed to this type of investigation. Francesco Caraccio's pictorial research is also clearly aligned with this approach, which is primarily an exploration of the human face and, precisely through the process of formal abstraction, an exploration of its identity.

As we can also appreciate from this mixed media on paper, Francesco Caraccio's artistic language is strongly expressionist, based on an extreme synthesis of the subject. The human face is reduced to a few essential features, almost symbolic in their peremptorily iconic nature. Caraccio's graphic line, which draws on Modigliani, breaks down and investigates the human face to extract its most distinctive essence. In addition to the expressionist synthesis, this investigation also draws, as it did in the Livorno master, on the Cubist conception of a complex space, in which the subject's elements are arranged according to multiple viewpoints. Formally, the work is well executed, conceived based on the pleasing contrast created between the clarity of the drawn line and the lightness of the color shading.

Giuseppe Francesco Giannotta, known professionally as Francesco Caraccio, was born in Maruggio in 1958. He trained primarily in France. In 1975, he created a War Memorial in Montelparo. In 1987, he worked on a project for a dance monument for the city of Monza. In 1990, he won the gold medal in Sulmona. His works have been exhibited in numerous museums in St. Petersburg, Vilnius, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Houston, New York, San Francisco, Paris, and The Hague.

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