Leonardo De Magistris - Untitled - MBUX009

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.

Leonardo De Magistris's landscapes are constructed essentially through color. The surface lacks compositional depth, but distance is perceived through complex chromatic transitions. Even objects are pure concentrations of color. Individual brushstrokes delineate the shape of a house or a tree. Everything is resolved through a layering process in which the brushstrokes, arranged on different planes, create a complex surface. The color is made up of transparent glazes, giving the landscape a certain evanescence that makes it more poetic.

Leonardo De Magistris was a Roman painter, born in 1933 and died in 2010. He was one of the founders of the Via Margutta painters' association and the Alternativa 94 association. De Magistris lived in a villa in Formello, immersed in the Roman countryside, which he loved to paint and reproduce in his paintings. One of his last exhibitions was held in his beloved Via Margutta, at the Vittoria gallery.

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