Gianni Tedeschi - 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.

The work is a clear example of an Expressionist landscape. Reality is interpreted in an extremely synthetic manner, with an exercise in reduction that seeks to reach the purest essence of the landscape. The surface is completely two-dimensional, with almost no spatial depth (which is only hinted at from the perspective of the street). The brushstrokes delineate the forms in a very instinctive manner. Delving even further into detail, we can see how Gianni Tedeschi depicts the urban landscape with a series of almost gestural marks, creating a polychrome impasto that transfigures his perception of the city into the paint. Thus, the application of color is dense and material, and although the language used in this work is synthetic and Expressionist, Gianni Tedeschi's vision remains connected to phenomenal reality, to its vibrations of light and atmosphere, in a pictorial process that takes the premises established by Impressionist and plein air art to their extreme consequences.

Gianni Tedeschi was born in Genoa in 1922 and passed away in Altopiano in 2018. His life was marked by many experiences, including his participation in the Voluntary Anti-Fascist Repression Organization, his enlistment in the Tenth Flotilla, the harsh experience of prison (as a political prisoner for 11 years), and then his freedom, the death of his father, and his love for Marisa, whom he married in 1963, and their two daughters, Francesca and Laura. In 1969, he moved to Asiago and fell in love with Altopiano, where his home became the Atelier Tedeschi. In the last years of his life, having become blind, he also devoted himself to writing. Among his many works is the autobiography "Dall'Ovra alla Decima Mas."

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