Michele Lapesara - Untitled

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been a constant aspiration for painters. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance; then with atmospheric rendering in the sixteenth century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism.

In this work, Michele Lapesara interprets a figurative representation in a stylistic register with vivid expressionist overtones. Indeed, we can appreciate how the scene is depicted by exploiting the expressive potential of color. The drawn structure dissolves into a highly synthetic representation. The painted surface transforms into a shifting impasto of dynamic chromaticism made up of vivid hues. The brushstrokes are extremely rapid, intent on recording every single fragment of shifting reality on the canvas with immediacy. For this reason, Lapesara's brushstrokes are extremely calligraphic, very subtle, composed of rapid strokes that, while conveying sensory information with immediacy, also ensure a strongly lyrical and narrative interpretation.

Michele Lapesara is an Apulian painter born in Bari in 1935. His work is distinguished by vibrant city views with a folkloristic feel. He prefers to depict important squares and monuments, especially in Apulia and his native Bari.

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