Giuseppe La Spina - The Little Square of Peschici

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 how, 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.

Among the various stylistic registers adopted by Giuseppe La Spina is a series of works in which the artist seeks to represent reality transfigured into the fleeting dimension of time and memory. As a result, objects almost lose their physical consistency, and the tangible element is reduced to a few synthetic traces. Everything, both the subjects and the space, is composed of an ethereal and elusive substance, without a true form on a two-dimensional surface. The subjects are constructed from an uncertain outline and a few flickering brush strokes. The composition is punctuated by the geometric lines of the buildings. Even the color palette expresses a sense of insubstantiality and ineffability, based on a palette of neutral tones.

Giuseppe La Spina is a Sicilian painter. The main subjects of his works are seascapes and prairies with horses, which the artist portrays forcefully with a palette of pure, bright colors and confident, solid brushstrokes, in an exclusively free and fantastical vision.
He has participated in numerous national, international and collective exhibitions, and his paintings are held by private collectors in Italy and abroad.

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