Giancarlo Colli - Untitled

Flowers as a subject in themselves began to appear in still lifes, a genre that emerged in the early 17th century. Subsequently, painters, especially the Impressionists, increasingly focused on the floral world as an extraordinary opportunity to capture vibrant colors and light. Thus, flowers began to appear not only in vases, but also immersed in their natural landscape. While initially a pretext for painters to attempt a photographic reproduction of reality, with contemporary art, the subject of flowers also becomes a way of interpreting reality.

Giancarlo Colli's style is profoundly expressionist. He begins with a highly advanced formal synthesis that reduces the subject to the bare minimum of elementary pictorial gestures. Thus, in this work too, we can appreciate how the subject's structure is determined by elementary signs and forms, possessing great primal force. The chromatic tones are aggressive and vibrant, in the best tradition of the Fauvist-Expressionist movement, and they disregard natural truth but possess a spiritual and emotional significance.

Giancarlo Colli, born in Malvaglio in 1931, lives and works in Inveruno and Milan. He studied painting and sculpture at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and since 1962 has held solo exhibitions in Milan, Rome, Parma, Reggio Emilia, Castano Primo, Robecchetto, Inveruno, Magenta, Corbetta, Abbiategrasso, Turin, Brescia, Palermo, Cremona, and elsewhere. He has participated in competitions and national and international group exhibitions, including: various editions of the Sant'Ilario d'Enza Prize (first prize in 1962); Suzzara (awarded in 1962, '63, '64); Ramazzotti Prize, Milan (awarded in 1967); Resistance Prize, Chiari (awarded in 1966); Rinascita Homage to Che Guevara Prize, Milan (awarded in 1967); various editions of the Scalarini Prize, Reggio Emilia (awarded in 1964 and 1969, 1st prize in 1967); Abbiategrasso Prize (1st prize in 1977). He has participated in numerous exhibitions. Recently, Giancarlo Colli created the large mosaic “The Resurrection” for the Formenti Chapel in the Inveruno Cemetery, inaugurated in October 2016.

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