Piero Cruciani Antinori - Industrial Landscape

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 major aspiration for artists of every era. 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.

Piero Cruciani Antinori has devoted much of his painting to industrial landscapes and suburban urban views. The artist pursues an existential poetics of anonymous apartment buildings, old, semi-abandoned structures, and horizons punctuated by lampposts, cranes, and chimneys. This existentialism is based not only on the choice of subjects, but also, and above all, on the form in which they are realized. Piero Cruciani Antinori's painting style is, in fact, both expressionist and metaphysical. Expressionist because he uses color to achieve a marked synthesis of forms, using colors that do not fully reflect the tangible reality, but possess a high symbolic value. Metaphysical because his views, taken from afar, tend toward an almost mechanical repetition of elements, in an atmosphere without space and time, where everything seems motionless.

Piero Cruciani Antinori was born in Rome in 1932. He trained and rose to prominence in the capital's artistic scene in the 1950s and 1960s. He devoted his entire artistic output to the social theme of the suburbs, highlighting their degradation, while drawing a profound existentialist poetics from his painting.

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