Giuliano Ottaviani - Freedom

Surrealist aesthetics emerged around the 1920s and encompassed 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, paradoxically accentuating the illusory and ambiguous nature of the surreal. In this work, Giuliano Ottaviani develops another of his favorite subjects, that of galloping horses, but, again, everything takes place in a surreal dimension.

Regarding the style of this work, Giuliano Ottaviani has developed a highly original formal approach. While, from an aesthetic and conceptual perspective, his work can be traced back to a Surrealist line, his language, however, must be compared to Expressionist approaches. Indeed, the horses are stripped of their individual details and reduced to pure form. They appear as elegantly elongated silhouettes, expressing strengths and energies that are entirely internal. Even the landscape, illuminated by the usual light, this time emitting lunar shimmers, is constructed through a subtle process of abstraction. The space is three-dimensional and contains imaginary rock formations that impose a sinuous rhythm on the entire composition.

Giuliano Ottaviani was born in Foligno in 1954. He first attended the Perugia School of Art and later graduated from the Brera Academy under Domenico Purificato. His first exhibition was held at the age of 17 in Milan, but he subsequently achieved great success in Zurich, where the gallery owner Her Bolag purchased his works for his private collection. Ottaviani divides his time between Italy and Switzerland, where he has consistently garnered excellent critical and public acclaim.

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