Piero Sbano - Untitled

Interior views are quite common among the subjects of artworks. Consider, for example, the many paintings depicting the artist's studio, such as Courbet's famous "Atelier." In other cases, painters have drawn inspiration from the intimate spaces of their lives, a prime example being Van Gogh's "The Room." But much more often, for an artist, portraying an interior takes on a symbolic meaning, especially when it appears emptied of human presence and the objects become images of memory.

Life painting, as interpreted by artist Piero Sbano, always takes on tones of lightness and gentleness. Formally, this means emptying objects of their mass and weight to transfigure them into pure chromatic vibrations. This is precisely what happens in this painting, where all the elements of the composition are rendered through a vibrant and synthetic brushstroke. A frenetic hatching portrays the objects as images from memory, signs of a life lived. The space that envelops them, with its iridescent and nuanced colors, reinforces this dreamlike atmosphere. Everything is executed with an accentuated syntheticism that reduces reality to its purest essence, in search of a type of representation imbued with primary values.

Piero Sbano was born in Paola in 1931 and passed away in 2013. He studied architecture at the University of Rome. From 1955 to 1959, he studied at the French Academy in Rome. He received numerous awards and honors in regional and national art exhibitions. His works are held in museums including the Civic Museum of Noto, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Bagheria at Villa Cattolica, the Museum of Modern Sacred Art in Palermo, the Museum of Modern Art in Recanati (Pesaro), and the Museum of Modern Art in San Marino.

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