Proferio Grossi - Horses

The depiction of animals in art has ancient origins, even appearing in primitive cave paintings. For religious reasons, various types of animals appear in the works of various ancient civilizations. It was especially in the Middle Ages, within the International Gothic style, that animal depictions became widespread as true life portraits, both within works of art and in notebooks of drawings and sketches. The presence of animals as subjects in art remained constant until the contemporary era. In this silkscreen, Proferio Grossi focuses his research on the figure of the horse. A noble animal, a symbol of beauty and harmony, the horse has repeatedly been a prominent subject in the history of art. Since the fourteenth century, its presence has always been obligatory in battle scenes or equestrian monuments, and for painters, representing it with anatomical precision and naturalistic rendering has always been a challenge.

Proferio Grossi's style consistently tends toward hyperrealism. While it lacks the cold lucidity that characterizes his famous still lifes, the painter's desire to objectively convey the sensory data before his eyes is evident. The artist also demonstrates a fine technique in the precision with which he reproduces the horses' coats and the effects of light falling on them. Despite their objective clarity and while avoiding overly accentuated atmospheric effects, Proferio Grossi's technique naturally inserts the subjects into space, with a continuity and indefiniteness of contours.

Proferio Grossi was an artist born in Vignale in 1923 and died in Parma in 2000. He trained under the guidance of Atanasio Soldati, moving toward geometric abstraction. In 1984, he joined the Movimento Arte Concreta (Concrete Art Movement). Proferio Grossi subsequently changed his career, dedicating himself to figurative art, namely, painting objects, which earned him great critical and public acclaim. This dialectic between abstract and figurative characterizes the entire final period of Grossi's work.

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