{"product_id":"giancarlo-cazzaniga-paesaggio-2","title":"Giancarlo Cazzaniga - Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and the Modern Age, 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 present work is part of a series of etchings by Giancarlo Cazzaniga, in which the city view is dominated by the everyday, the frank and sincere realism of everyday life in a peripheral urban context. Human presence is not contemplated, and the artist lets the buildings and objects speak for themselves, protagonists of a direct narrative, unfiltered by idealization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn this series of urban-themed etchings, artist Giancarlo Cazzaniga's style presents a perfect fusion of realism and a delicate, impressionistic rendering of sensory details. On the one hand, the artist precisely describes the view in all its details, with a strong sense of urban reality and the everyday life of simple life. On the other, his refined engraving technique allows him to convey a sense of immediacy to the composition, thanks to a vibrant stroke, charged with atmospheric and existential vibrations. Light thus reflects on objects, but without interfering with the precise description of reality, and the artist can modulate light and shadow with great naturalism. Giancarlo Cazzaniga's sincere realism is also expressed in his choice of a compositional structure made of clean lines, in diagonals that recede to the right or left, revealing the artist's careful study of reality and a highly rational mind. Even in the monochrome of the etching the artist manages to express a lyricism, delicate and profound at the same time, of the urban scenario of a suburb steeped in everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eGiancarlo Cazzaniga was born in Monza in 1930 and passed away in 2013. With tenacity and his father's encouragement, he devoted himself to studying painting. In 1950, he attended the Cimabue Academy of Art in Milan and participated in his first formative experiences. His friendship with journalist and art critic Aurelio Sioli introduced him to the famous Pirovini sisters' dairy on Via Fiori Chiari and the artistic scene there. He began to frequent the Brera district, participating in cultural debate, and associating with the protagonists of the cultural movement later defined as Existential Realism. He made his debut in the 1950s, participating in public and thematic exhibitions, and then holding his first solo exhibition in 1957 in Brescia. He exhibited at the Permanente in Milan in 1958, having been invited to the \"Young Italian Artists\" exhibition, and in 1959, again in Milan, he won the San Fedele Prize. In the 1960s he was invited to the Venice Biennale and the Rome Quadrennial.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Donatella Loforese","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56218073072002,"sku":"dlof002","price":850.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/Schermata-2022-01-03-alle-16.09.50.png?v=1768470812","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/giancarlo-cazzaniga-paesaggio-2","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}