Primo Marcarini - Lonely Boat

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.

Primo Marcarini's style presents a perfect fusion of realism and a delicate, impressionistic rendering of sensory details. On the one hand, the artist precisely describes the view in all its details, with a strong sense of reality and a naturalistic rendering of the landscape. On the other, his refined painting technique allows him to convey a sense of immediacy to his work, thanks to a rapid, atmospherically vibrant application. Light thus reflects on objects, but without interfering with the precise depiction of reality. The entire view is thus characterized by a clear luminosity that is revealed, by contrast, in the play of shadows. The use of a palette of soft, delicate colors also serves this purpose.

Primo Marcarini was born in Fiesco in 1920 and died in Milan in 1990. A freelance illustrator and photographer, he worked as a highly sought-after cover artist for an endless series of publishing houses and popular magazines such as Grand Hotel, Intrepido, Diabolik, war periodicals (Guerra d'Eroi, SuperEroica, Raf, Victory, Jaguar, Submarine, Pattuglia X and others), and Italian series of western, adventure, noir and erotic genres (Pecos Bill, Mister X, Kalì, Erik, Jolanka, Karzan, Vartàn, Helga, Storie Blu, Storie Nere and many others).

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