Luigi Guerricchio - Untitled

The work can be defined as a genre scene, that is, the depiction of an episode of everyday life that, apparently, lacks any significant element. These types of domestic subjects were long considered minor and only began to spread in Western art starting in the 17th century. Only with the development of 19th-century realism did everyday subjects become considered as important as historical or religious ones.

This work is a beautiful engraving by artist Luigi Guerricchio, whose distinctive trait is his ability to distort reality for expressive purposes. Reality is synthesized with fine hatching into a set of elegant lines. The space, though essentially two-dimensional, is complex, constructed along multiple lines. The subjects, typical of Guerricchio's style, are grotesque and caricatural, characterized by various swellings.

Luigi Guerricchio was an artist from Matera, born in 1932 and died in 1996. Throughout his career, he employed a wide variety of techniques: in addition to painting, he experimented with pastel drawing, etching, aquatint, and woodcut, mosaic, and papier-mâché. His artistic output was always characterized by familiar landscapes, Matera and its stones. He participated in numerous important national and international exhibitions, including the 8th, 9th, and 10th Quadriennale Nazionale d'Arte in Rome, the Venice Engraving Biennial, Intergrafik '65 in Berlin, the Ramazzotti Prize in Milan, the Fiorino Prize in Florence, and the International Exhibition of Commited Art in Vienna, Linz, and Salzburg.

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