Giulio Perina - Untitled

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been a major aspiration for artists of every era. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance; then with atmospheric rendering in the sixteenth century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism. The research of Mantuan artist Giulio Perina focused precisely on landscape, in a dialectic between his adherence to Lombard Chiarismo and his more Expressionist phases.

This work is extremely interesting because it shows how Giulio Perina's experimentation and his exploration of landscape painting, in some cases, went beyond expressionism to reach pure abstraction. In this painting, the sensitive elements of the landscape are subjected to an extreme synthesis, and reality is reconstructed through simple perpendicular lines and chromatic zones created with agitated gestures. The lines leave a trace of the former volumes of the houses, while the zigzagging brush strokes imbue the objects with profound vibrations. The sensitive element is thus virtually eliminated, and what emerges from the work is the artist's pure perception, which leads him to reconstruct the world through signs and gestures.

Giulio Perina was born in Villafranca di Verona in 1907, but spent most of his life in Mantua, where he moved in 1917 and died in 1985. He participated in the Permanente in Milan as early as 1926. In 1934, he met Umberto Lilloni and Oreste Del Bon and joined the Lombard Chiaristi group. In 1931 and 1939, he participated in the Rome Quadriennale. By the 1940s, Perina's painting style had become decidedly expressionist. In 1975, the city of Mantua dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him.

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