Libero Vitali - Untitled

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.

This work highlights Libero Vitali's post-Impressionist maturity. The composition is compressed entirely into the foreground, allowing no spatial depth. The painter's aim is not to capture the sensory aspect of the subject, but to capture its very essence, its substance. To this end, the brushstroke, rich in texture, intervenes, fleshing out the objects, breaking them down into different planes, recording the vibrations of light and life within them. The sensory aspect, therefore, is completely transcended in a complex conception of pictorial practice in which the artist's gestures themselves play a fundamental role. In landscape painting, the painter constructs objects with broad, dense brushstrokes, and the house is structured according to geometric principles inspired by Cézanne. Chromatically, the entire surface of the work is blended with a balanced palette of references and correspondences.

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 moved to London, where he held 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 cinema 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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