Giovanni Marchese - Untitled

The "Still Life" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consisted of the depiction of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to experiment with a naturalistic or photographic reproduction 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 element. In this painting, compared to the more common still life featuring compositions of fruit, Giovanni Marchese opts for a version inspired by the world of hunting. This variant developed particularly in the 17th century, especially in Flemish painting.

The style of artist Giovanni Marchese, as we can see in this still life, demonstrates a pictorial tendency firmly rooted in life-like reproduction. Indeed, we see a desire to objectively convey onto the canvas, with intense realism, the sensory data the artist has before his eyes. Giovanni Marchese clearly possesses a remarkable technique, rigorously classical in nature, even reminiscent of Flemish painting, in the precision with which he reproduces the various materials and surfaces and the effects of light falling on them. Despite its objective clarity and while avoiding overly accentuated atmospheric effects, Giovanni Marchese's technique naturally inserts the objects into space, with a continuity and indefiniteness of contours. Indeed, the succulent piece of meat and the game are illuminated in a suggestive and theatrical manner, emerging from the dark background. It is noteworthy that the artist's great attention to compositional balance is always attributable to a classical taste. In this case, the artist organizes a rigorous structure that follows an ascending diagonal from left to right. Despite the formal and compositional rigor, Giovanni Marchese's style is lively, thanks to a style that in some passages becomes more synthetic and impressionistic to immediately record the chromatic and luminous vibrations on the objects.

Giovanni Marchese is an artist who lives and works in Catania. A primarily figurative and realist painter, he creates his subjects with an extraordinary technique that allows him to combine the precise recording of sensory data with a remarkable freshness of execution.

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