Gennaro Picinni - Venice

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 Gennaro Picinni's work, the landscape takes on decidedly surreal and fantastical connotations.

Gennaro Picinni's works are always the product of an inexhaustible creative imagination. His urban views are immersed in a magical and imaginative dimension, animated by curious characters engaged in a wide variety of activities. Thus, Picinni's urban landscapes take on the appearance of a true fantasy tale, where the obsessive attention to detail is the defining characteristic of his compositional orchestration. Formally, the magic is maintained through an extremely complex design that is in keeping with the illustrative nature of the work. Furthermore, Picinni uses strong contrasts of very bright colors, always to transport the urban reality into a surreal dimension.

Gennaro Picinni was born in Bari in 1933. His career began in the 1950s, when he began participating in numerous competitions. He devoted himself primarily to abstract and surrealist painting. Some of his religious works have been included in the Vatican Museums' collections.

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