Mario Targato - Sand Quarry

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and the Modern Age, but predominantly in an idealized manner. Scenes of city life became typical themes with a more realistic interpretation starting in the 19th century. It's worth remembering how, immediately following the realist movements of the 19th century, the Impressionists also placed great emphasis on the everyday, on everyday life, with a certain predilection, however, for the frenetic pace of the city, its crowds, traffic, and typically bourgeois settings. In this peripheral view by Mario Targato, the everyday aspect prevails, the frank and sincere realism of everyday life in an industrial context. Human presence is ignored, and the artist lets the machines and objects speak for themselves, protagonists of a direct narrative unfiltered by idealization.

Artist Mario Targato's style presents a perfect fusion of realism and a delicate, yet soft, rendering of sensory data. On the one hand, the artist precisely describes the view in all its details with a strong sense of peripheral reality and the everydayness of simple experiences. On the other, his refined pictorial technique allows him to convey a sense of immediacy to the canvas, thanks to a schematic yet not entirely dry representation. Light, in fact, reflects on objects without interfering with the description of reality, and the artist can modulate light and shadow with great naturalism. Mario Targato's sincere realism is also expressed in his choice of a compositional structure made of clean lines, which reveal the artist's careful study of reality and a highly rational mind. His palette is composed of light and delicate hues that avoid any pictorial excess.

Mario Targato is a painter who has consistently enjoyed critical and public success, having won the Ambrogino d'Oro in Milan. Targato stands out for his simple and direct style, which embodies a genuinely realistic approach to art. In his work, sensory elements are not idealized but rather reproduced as they are in reality. For this reason, his figurative language draws on life-like reproductions but is distinguished by a certain schematic manner that brings a lively quality to the representation.

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