Gianni Calamassi - Untitled

The "Still Life" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consisted of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to experiment with naturalistic or photographic reproductions of reality, with contemporary art, the "Still Life" also became a way of interpreting reality. Indeed, as happened, for example, in the Cubist avant-garde or in Giorgio Morandi, the in-depth exploration of objects was aimed at a conceptual representation, taken beyond the mere sensory aspect.

Gianni Calamassi's style in still lifes demonstrates a post-Impressionist maturity: this artist's exploration, in fact, emphasizes the expressive potential of color, achieving remarkable heights in this stylistic register. The composition is entirely compressed into the foreground, without any allowance for spatial depth. The painter's aim is not to capture the sensory aspect of the fruits and objects, but to capture their very essence, their substance. To this end, the brushstroke, rich in texture, intervenes, which, despite the essentiality of the representation, fleshes out the objects, breaking them down into different planes, recording the vibrations of light and life within them. The sensory aspect, therefore, is completely transcended in a complex conception of pictorial practice in which the artist's gestures themselves play a fundamental role.

Gianni Calamassi (Florence), poet, narrator, and painter, lives in Florence. He graduated in Biological Sciences. He attended the Piccola Accademia at the Galleria dello Sprone and was one of the founders of the Harf Group in 1970. The author is very active in his artistic career and is a member of some of Tuscany's most important cultural associations: the "Circolo Poeti e scrittori di Empoli," "Armonia delle Muse," the "Firenze - Europa - Mario Conti" Cultural Center, and "LiberArte" in Sesto Fiorentino.

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