Giorgio Vicari - Untitled

Surrealist aesthetics emerged around the 1920s, encompassing all fields of artistic research. Specifically, in the visual arts, Surrealism sought to explore the human subconscious and translate it into artwork through a mechanical writing process based on dream analysis. Consequently, Surrealist artworks propose the representation of a dreamlike dimension, completely dissociated from reality. However, this representation often relies on a hyperrealistic formal rendering, precisely to paradoxically accentuate the illusory and ambiguous nature of the surreal dimension.

In this work, artist Giorgio Vicari seeks to evoke a true vision, one steeped in fantasy and the grotesque. For this reason, drawing on the Surrealist tradition, his formal language is strongly figurative, evoking concrete images, even if they belong to a dimension other than that of the perceptible world. However, to heighten the fantastical tones, this figurative concreteness is subjected to expressive distortions by the artist. Thus, the figure's proportions are elongated, and its features take on caricature-like, even monstrous, features. The visionary element is also accentuated by the highly elaborate application of the paint, in a pictorial style that does not undermine the concreteness of the images, yet still renders them vividly and dynamically.

Giorgio Vicari was an artist active in the Mantua area in the 1960s and 1970s. His work is characterized by surrealist compositions and solitary, metaphysical landscapes. He is an artist who loves to evoke visions of the fantastic and the grotesque. His iconography is highly elaborate and expresses a profound creative flair that also draws on literary references. His language tends to be figurative, underpinned by a vibrant pictorialism.

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