Gianpaolo Berto - 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 that 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. This work is part of a series by Gianpaolo Berto in which the Venetian landscape takes on decidedly surreal and fantastical connotations.

Gianpaolo Berto's works dedicated to the city of Venice are always the fruit 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, Berto'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 magical and illustrative nature of the work. Furthermore, Berto uses strong contrasts of very bright colors, always to transport the urban reality into a surreal dimension.

Gianpaolo Berto was born in Adria (RO) in 1940. In 1956, he had his first solo exhibition in Rovigo, at Livio Rizzi's "Piccola Galleria del Polesine." When Gian Paolo was twenty, his family moved to Rome. He creates collages and assemblages (some of which will be exhibited in a joint exhibition with Aldo Braibanti at the Circolo Culturale in Viale Giotto). In 1963, his first significant exhibition in Modena, at the Palazzo dei Musei, was presented by Carlo Levi, whom Berto would frequent almost daily until his death, in an exemplary student-master relationship that was destined to give a stamp and a style to his life as a painter and professor when he was called (first to the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata, then to the one in Rome) to teach engraving techniques. In 1979, his first anthological exhibition was held in his hometown of Rovigo, at Palazzo Roncali. He exhibited in Greece (in Athens at the “Le Pleiades” gallery, and in Crete, at the International Graphic Biennial at Istron Bay). Some exhibitions in Rome followed. He participated by invitation at the International Graphic Biennial “Vico Arte”. He created the Atrium of Theatri Ephistola by Aldo Braibanti. Anthological exhibition at the Teatro Municipal Gallery “A. Rendano” in Cosenza (1991). He illustrated “Psicanalisi contro” in July (1991) with works on Mozart. In 2000, with Paolo Pucinischi, an exhibition was held in Carpineto Romano in the church of San Nicola. The following year, in Chioggia, an exhibition of assemblages. In 2002, an exhibition on the Tiber in Rome organized by Maragnani and Homage to Borges in Olevano Romano organized by Francesco Ruggiero. In 2003, in Adria, his hometown, a large anthology exhibition with an important catalogue.

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