Francesco Saltara - Untitled

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and the Modern Era, but predominantly in an idealized manner. Scenes of city life became typical themes with a more realistic interpretation starting in the 19th century. It's worth remembering how, immediately following the realist movements of the 19th century, the Impressionists also placed great emphasis on the everyday, on everyday life, with a certain predilection, however, for the frenetic pace of the city, its crowds, traffic, and typically bourgeois settings.

In this work, Pavia-born artist Francesco Saltara displays his existentialist lyricism of metropolitan space. The urban view is constructed in a sort of rarefied two-dimensionality, where only through the fields of color can we discern the buildings' volumes. There's a search for expressiveness that culminates in an abstract representation of the buildings. Finally, it's the color that completes the work, unifying the surface in an atmosphere filled with smog and humidity.

Francesco Saltara was an artist from Pavia, born in 1930 and died in 2010. His popularity increased after his participation in the Bottigella Prize. His artistic language was shaped by an existentialist realism, formally expressed with expressionist accents. His images, emptied of metropolitan views or garments hung in decontextualized spaces, are famous. Saltara has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in cities such as Rome, Milan, and New York.

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