Giuseppe Uzzaco - The Fishermen

Social themes in art began to gain prominence in the mid-19th century, coinciding with the spread of social questions throughout European societies. The work of painters such as Millet and Daumier, for example, favored subjects related to life in the fields, factory work, or strikes. In Italy, among the first painters to engage deeply with social themes were Pellizza da Volpedo and, in the contemporary era, Renato Guttuso. Giuseppe Uzzaco also falls into this category, and his favorite subjects were fishermen and farmers, depicted through his original and personal artistic language, which combines contemporaneity with an authentic and sincere description of a typical Sicilian reality.

Giuseppe Uzzaco's artistic production fits perfectly into a pictorial movement that combines realist themes with a predominantly expressionist language. Indeed, if the subject matter is the world of work and the working classes, the style calls for a synthetic interpretation of reality. In a two-dimensional space, everything is simplified to transfigure reality in an expressive and symbolic sense. The process of abstraction, therefore, is conducted by the painter to extract the essence from sensory data. The subject is thus resolved in a juxtaposition of chromatic zones, with vivid and brilliant colors, in which the volume of the subjects and their physiognomies is lost. In this way, Uzzaco creates an image charged with primary, immutable values, thanks to the expressive essentiality and chromatic strength. The compact application of color, reminiscent of Gauguin's à plat, is achieved through a dense and full-bodied application. The light invades the entire scene, further crystallizing it in a timeless dimension.

Giuseppe Uzzaco was a painter from Palermo born in 1932 and passed away in 2020. His artistic production focused primarily on popular genre scenes, with a strong interest in the lives of farmers and fishermen. His artistic language tends toward expressionism, based on the use of solid colors and bright hues. In 1974, the City of Palermo dedicated his first exhibition to him at Palazzo Butera. He subsequently exhibited his works throughout Italy and Europe, in cities such as Rome, Paris, London, Warsaw, and Bari. Uzzaco is also famous for his murals on Isola delle Femmine, Trappeto, and Montelepre.

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