Mario Lupo - Trabucco

Mario Lupo is known for his paintings of vast landscapes, which capture a sense of expectation, a suspension of reality. Here too, we see a seascape; in the foreground, the shoreline, while in the distance, we glimpse pine trees and houses leading to a pier. Surrounding these elements, we see seagulls, a frequent recurrence in his poetry. In his early seascapes, we encounter women waiting, while here, instead, we see the seagull, which, as he says, is "also a friend in hours of solitude, because I've been at sea, I've sailed for many years, and so perhaps I've understood more deeply the solitude of man and the waiting of woman. And the seagull, how it kept me company during the hours of sailing."

"Everything I put on the canvas is oil paint, superimposed layers that create this density in some parts and less so in others. For example, in the sky the material is much less thick! However, when I draw trees, I take enormous quantities of paint with the palette knife and actually spread it on the area to be filled. Then I always rework it with the palette knife! I haven't painted with a brush for almost twenty years." With these words, Lupo describes his painting. In this canvas too, we can see a dense and material impasto that is reworked by the artist. Lupo creates a painting that revolves around an imaginative chromatic tone, a color between pink and violet hues with lighter touches of orange, giving us a sunset that also tinges all the surrounding nature with the last rays of the sun. The intensity of the scene is underlined by a linear component that contributes with drawn elements in black to delineate the whole.

Mario Lupo was born in 1926 in Giulianova, in the province of Teramo. As a young man, he moved several times with his family of five siblings, first to Gorizia, then to Pescara, and finally returning to Giulianova after the war. He decided to enlist in the Maritime Finance Police, and at the same time began painting in his spare time, starting with master copies of 19th-century works and later moving on to painting flowers and country houses. For work, he moved to Ancona, where he began to meet various painters, including Fanesi, who encouraged him to pursue his art. It was during this period that he exhibited in his first solo shows in Rome, Milan, San Benedetto del Tronto, and Siena. Perhaps also due to his passion for sailing, he began painting on canvas, a rough canvas used in sailing. He began to develop his own style, primarily depicting seascapes, hillside landscapes, black-and-whites, and religious subjects. In 1964, he painted his first "Woman in Waiting," a subject that would become a constant in his art. A few years later, seagulls also appeared, and the two often began to appear side by side. The artist died in 1992.

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