Libero Vitali - Oriental Landscape

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.

As we can see in this and other works by Libero Vitali, for the Venetian painter the theme of landscape becomes a pretext for reconstructing the world through his perception and thus reducing it to pure forms and pure colors. Perceptible reality, then, is subjected to a significant process of synthesis, but also to expressionistic deformation. The entire landscape is reduced to a series of thin lines which, intersecting, form fields of color within which the paint layer unfolds compactly. In this way, the perception of reality is transfigured into a complex interplay of chromatic balances and refined dissonances. The palette favors aggressive, almost violent colors, referencing the Expressionist tradition. The exercise in reducing and abstracting reality crushes the pictorial space into a two-dimensional surface. However, we can note how the color fields are arranged on overlapping planes that presuppose a complex conception of space, not univocal, but based on multiple directional lines. In this way, despite the accentuated synthesis, Vitali can investigate reality in depth, according to a process of decomposition that harks back to Cubism.

Libero Vitali was born in Venice in 1928. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and then moved to Milan, where, in 1958, he became interested in advertising graphics. His painting career took off in 1962, when he participated in an exhibition at the Galerie Espace in Paris, where he met Marc Chagall. In 1964, he held his first exhibitions in Milan at the Gallerie dell'Accademia and Lux ​​Pilastro; the following year, he was in London, where he had a solo exhibition at the Lincoln Gallery and participated in a group show at the O'Hanna Gallery; in 1965, he exhibited at the Amel Gallery in New York. The following year, in Rome, he held an exhibition on cinematic themes at Palazzo Sciarra, and in 1971, he exhibited paintings and sculptures at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni. In 1974, in Paris, he presented a solo exhibition at the Galerie Mouffe. In 1976, he executed a large painting on the theme of accidents, which was donated to the Chamber of Labor in Naples. In 1978 Paolo Levi presented an exhibition of his paintings and glass sculptures at the Milanese gallery "Il Castello".

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