Manuel Campus - Christ

The iconographic subject of Christ's face has ancient origins and is connected to the legend of Veronica. The episode in which Christ's true likeness was imprinted on a cloth used by a woman to wipe his face is also recounted in the Gospels. This woman was identified as Veronica, likely due to the similarity with the Latin words "Vera Icon." Since the early Christian era, the face of Christ has been the object of particular veneration. Its depiction has pervaded the entire history of Western art. From the first iconic representations of the early Christian and early Middle Ages, we gradually moved on to increasingly naturalistic (starting in the Renaissance) or realistic (typical of Flemish art) depictions.

Manuel Campus's art is characterized by expressive faces, strong personalities, and popular traits. The painter has succeeded in creating his own poetics from the grim stares and frowning faces. These are the rugged faces of social outcasts, but Campus manages to sublimate them with his own expressionistic interpretation. The artist implements a process of formal synthesis based on a linear rhythm of composition. Plasticity is understated, and very little room is left for spatial depth. The compositions are always in tune with a color palette of brown tones that evoke lived-in influences.

Manuel Campus is an artist of Sardinian origin, born in Domus De Maria in 1928, but lives and works in Bazzano Inferiore, near Spoleto. He established himself as an artist from a young age, including in ceramics; he directed the Piediluco Ceramics School and the Rieti Art Institute. Many of his works have been acquired by important national and international museums, as well as by banks, religious institutions, hospitals, municipalities, prefectures, and private collections. From 1951 to 2004, he held numerous solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad. He has received numerous awards, honorary citizenships, and recognitions. Among others, in 1991, on the occasion of the 23rd edition of the "Golden Saint Valentine" International Award, the Committee for the Award of a Message of Love named him an honorary member of the Valentinian Academy.

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