Orlando Mengoli - Still Life

The "Still Life" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consisted of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to experiment with naturalistic or photographic reproductions of reality, with contemporary art, the "Still Life" also became a way of interpreting reality. Indeed, as happened, for example, in the Cubist avant-garde or in Giorgio Morandi, the in-depth exploration of objects was aimed at a conceptual representation, taken beyond the mere sensory aspect.

Artist Orlando Mengoli's research has focused primarily on the still life genre, consistently maintaining a figurative style that adheres to reality. Mengoli carefully captures the sensory details of the objects he depicts, yet he tends to emphasize their plastic qualities. For this reason, his style in this genre is less prone to overly dramatic pictorial effects. His brushwork is just vibrant enough to imbue the objects with vibrations that are more existential than luminous. Drawing thus prevails, delineating harmonious and regular volumes. Indeed, the choice of simple objects such as bottles or other containers allows the artist to resolve the composition into a harmonious dialogue of geometric forms. A rationalist sense prevails in the representation of reality, which, however, is tempered by the action of light, which brings the objects to life with quick flashes of white.

Orlando Mengoli is an artist who dedicates himself primarily to traditional genres such as still life, with a very classical and rigorous conception of pictorial art, based on a geometric exaltation of formal values ​​in a perspective space.

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