Lucan Carpette - Fantasy Love and Despair

Since the 19th century, when painting began to explore various aspects of bourgeois life, the circus world has been a theme explored by various artists. With the development of Symbolist and Expressionist movements between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the figure of the acrobat, circus performer, or mask began to gain popularity, as it served a vital role in the development of complex iconographies with hidden and mysterious meanings. Examples include the figures of artists and harlequins immortalized by Picasso during his "blue" and "rose" periods. During the 1970s and 1980s, it became a true genre, practiced by many painters, who focused their attention primarily on the figure of the clown. Sergio Nardoni continues this trend, reclaiming the underlying and allusive magic inherent in these enigmatic figures.

In his interpretation of circus-themed subjects, artist Lucan Carpette emphasizes the work's symbolist nature, clearly accentuating the shift from naturalistic representation. A sense of magic and mystery is conveyed through an expressionist synthesis, through which natural truth gives way to a process of abstraction with a precise conceptual value. Thus, the scenes are constructed through broad brushstrokes, dense with pictorial substance. Finally, even the color transcends the confines of realism, adopting more spiritual than naturalistic tones.

Lucan Carpette is the pseudonym of Luciano Angelini, a Roman artist born in 1928.

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