Navarrino - Triptych - Untitled

The work's iconography has an ironic, grotesque quality, likely with some allegorical and satirical connections. The language used has strong connections to the German New Objectivity artistic movement. It features the same simplified and illusory interpretation of a realism based on a marked plasticity. We find the same cynical nature of painters like George Grosz and Otto Dix in lashing out at their own society with lucid irony.

In this series of lithographs, Navarrino emphasizes the subjects' plasticity, emphasizing their features and facial features. At the same time, his depiction is caricatural, driven by an ironic taste for the grotesque. Regardless, beyond any satirical intent, the elegance of an objective formal appearance interprets eccentric and imaginative subjects. Also noteworthy is the technical skill with which he enhances the volumes and the hatching, which creates evocative nuances.

Navarrino Navarrini was born in La Spezia in 1892 and passed away in 1980. Thanks to a scholarship, he trained at the Academy of Florence under the guidance of De Carolis and then with Lolli at the Istituto di Affrescatura di Santa Croce. In 1927, he held his first solo exhibition in his hometown. In the 1920s, he worked on the decoration of numerous public buildings in La Spezia. In addition to exhibiting his works in various Italian cities, he participated twice in the Venice Biennale (1942 and 1950) and the Rome Quadriennale (1955).

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