Pino Procopio - 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. The same simplified and infantile interpretation of a realism based on a marked plasticity is evident. We find the same cynical nature of painters like George Grosz and Otto Dix in lashing out at their own society with lucid irony.

The painting demonstrates the distinctive features of Procopio's objective style. Like the German masters, his painting emphasizes the plasticity of his subjects, inflating their limbs with excessive musculature. His deformations are caricatural, driven by an ironic taste for the grotesque. However, unlike the masters of New Objectivity, Procopio's volumes are enhanced by a soft pictorialism that shapes them and merges them with space. The composition of the work, with its triangular structure and the symmetrical positions of the subjects, is constructed with a cold rationality that enhances its surreal character.

Pino Procopio, born in Guardavalle in 1954, is an Italian painter, sculptor, and illustrator. His artistic language, essentially figurative, is characterized by a subtle sense of humor. He enjoys constructing grotesque compositions. His work shows affinities with German New Objectivity, in the deformations of his subjects and their exaggerated plasticity, but it differs in its more painterly technique and brighter color palette.

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