Lino Marzulli - 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.

The work is a clear example of an Expressionist landscape. Nature is interpreted in an extremely synthetic manner, with an almost brutal exercise in reduction. The surface is completely two-dimensional, with no allowance for spatial depth. The brushstrokes delineate the forms in a very tormented and nervous manner. Color is used according to an emotional and spiritual interpretation, without any connection to reality. The work is therefore highly indicative of Lino Marzulli's conception of landscape painting. For this painter, as with Mario Schifano, the pictorial ductus is linked to the gesturality of American Abstract Expressionism.

Lino Marzulli was born in Sesto San Giovanni in 1929 and passed away in Milan in 2007. In 1955, he attended the Faruffini Art School, directed by Giovanni Fumagalli, where he learned the art of painting. These were years of intense interaction among young Milanese artists, galleries, museums, and art theory courses. In the early 1960s, he taught color technique at the Rizzoli Institute in Milan. He experimented with new materials and techniques, while always pursuing the idea of ​​painting as painted. In 1966, he moved his studio to Milan and, along with other artists, entered the heart of the protest movement, occupying the Triennale and then the Venice Biennale. Until 1973, he was constantly engaged in cultural struggles.

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