Gianfranco Rontani - Untitled

Surrealist aesthetics emerged around the 1920s and encompassed all fields of artistic research. Specifically, in the visual arts, Surrealism sought to explore the human subconscious and translate it into artwork through a mechanical writing process based on dream analysis. Consequently, Surrealist artworks propose the representation of a dreamlike dimension, completely dissociated from reality. However, this representation often relies on a hyperrealistic formal rendering, precisely to paradoxically accentuate the illusory and ambiguous nature of the surreal dimension.

This work is part of a series in which artist Gianfranco Rontani develops a Surrealist stylistic vein. Rontani's Surrealism draws on both concrete images and quotations, but also on abstract entities, which straddle the biomorphic and the geometric. Indeed, the figures that populate these works have the form of biological organisms, yet are constructed with a rationalist rigor. Their rounded and sinuous volumes thus combine with perfect shapes of triangles, semicircles, and spheres (one of this painter's most recurring motifs). Furthermore, from a formal perspective, Gianfranco Rontani demonstrates great care and technical expertise in delineating these figures in an illusory hyperrealism in the finest Surrealist tradition. The space surrounding the subjects is also highly complex and dynamic, dominated by a principle of abstract expressionism achieved with a decidedly vibrant pictorial style. From a chromatic perspective, the work's surface is unified by a consistent choice of warm, brown tones.

Gianfranco Rontani was born in Lucca in 1926. His first solo exhibition opened in Prato in 1962 at the Falsetti Art Gallery, followed by numerous others in major Italian and foreign cities, including Florence, Rome, Bologna, Pisa, Chicago (1965), Verona, Milan (several times), Genoa, Trento, Bolzano, Mantua, Bergamo, Catania, Bari, Parma, Rovigo, Lugano (1976), Grosseto, Prato, Ferrara, Sesto San Giovanni, Viareggio, Pistoia, La Spezia, Lucca, Monaco (1995), Empoli, and Udine. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to culture and art, in 1988 he was awarded the title of Cavaliere della Repubblica, upon the recommendation of the Prime Minister. Gianfranco Rontani has received numerous commissions, both for religious works and for paintings destined for public and private collections.

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