{"product_id":"l-messina-senza-titolo","title":"Lillo Messina - Untitled","description":"\u003cp\u003eLandscape 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; up until the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism. The artistic research of the painter Lillo Messina focused on the subject of maritime-inspired landscapes. His views of solitary beaches and piers feature shipwrecks, abandoned anchors, cliffs, and seagulls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn his vast oeuvre dedicated to marine landscapes, the artist Lillo Messina has increasingly shifted from a figurative language toward a progressive abstraction of sensory data. In the present work, we are clearly faced with a type of representation that still has a close connection to reality. This reality, however, is the product of a symbolic interpretation by the artist, who transfers it into a dimension undoubtedly linked to metaphysics. This is particularly evident in the composition, characterized by a strong dose of rationalism and objectivity. Everything has a clearly geometric and essential character that transmits this beach with a still and timeless atmosphere. However, Lillo Messina does not reach the paradoxical excesses of a De Chirico, instead downgrading his world to a magical realism of great maritime inspiration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eLillo Messina was born in 1941 in Messina. His connection to the sea was further strengthened by family tradition: his grandfather, father, and uncles were all seafarers. He began his art studies in Messina at the Art Institute, which he later continued in Reggio Calabria. In 1961, he moved to Rome to attend the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1964, he held his first solo exhibition at the Galleria San Marco in Rome. In 1969, he began a long series of solo exhibitions that took him to various Italian cities. In 1972, he had a solo exhibition at the Galleria Il Molino in Rome, followed by one at the Galleria Valguarnera in Bagheria, and finally another solo exhibition in Catania at the Galleria Il Punto. In addition to various exhibitions in various Italian cities, in 1974, he exhibited for the first time at the Bedford House Gallery in London. He later participated in the exhibition \"Italian Days in Moscow and the USSR.\" In 1983, he was commissioned to create a work for the Trans-Mediterranean Gas Pipeline, an illustration of which was published in ENI's magazine \"Ecos.\" The sea, a prominent feature of his work since the mid-1970s, has consistently taken center stage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Filippo Burani","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56218105741698,"sku":"fbur001","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/bf18b786-37bd-4bf8-a57e-b2c420d6f964.jpg?v=1768471197","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/l-messina-senza-titolo","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}