Remo Brindisi - Maternity

Remo Brindisi was an internationally prolific Italian artist. His encounters with artists such as Felice Carena, Ardengo Soffici, and Ottone Rosai in Florence provided him with the tools to enrich his pictorial research. His painting style is strongly expressionist, with informal tendencies, yet still retains vibrant forms and colors. This engraving presents an iconography that has been a central theme throughout the centuries: motherhood. This subject is strongly linked to the Christian religion, as these two figures are linked to Jesus and the Virgin Mary. During the Middle Ages, the iconography of the Virgin and Child was often depicted in loving and devout poses, surrounded by symbols of purity and devotion, emphasizing the beauty and sacredness of the mother-child relationship. This is a limited-edition print. This means the work is based on a matrix that allows for multiple reproductions of the same subject. There are various types of printmaking, including woodcuts, aquatints, etchings, silkscreens, and many others, such as lithography. All these techniques are not simple prints, but graphic art created through the direct intervention of the artist's hand. The word lithography derives from the Greek and literally means "writing on stone." The technique exploits the mutual repulsion between aqueous and greasy materials. The artist, on a specially prepared stone, begins tracing a design with a greasy pen. This design must mirror the intended representation. When pressed, the paper absorbs only the ink previously deposited on the drawing. Precisely because this technique offers the painter great freedom, it is the closest to a true drawing. Once the desired print run is reached, the matrix is ​​"crossed out," meaning it is disfigured so that no further copies can be released onto the market, beyond those desired by the artist.

The twentieth-century master, through his unique and recognizable style, conveys his idea of ​​motherhood. The use of bright, bold colors, once again, makes the figures in the lithograph vibrate. Beyond the coloristic and graphic aspects, the artist's works appear to adopt a gestural approach to drawing, making the composition dynamic and well-balanced. The artist's expressiveness, therefore, emerges through color, texture, and the lines that cut the paper.

Remo Brindisi is one of the most prolific painters of the Italian twentieth century. Born in Rome in 1918, he lived a life marked by cultural and artistic commitment. From 1935 onwards, he attended courses at the Centro Sperimentale di Scenografia e Nudo (Experimental Center of Scenography and the Nude) at the Academy on Via Ripetta in Rome. That same year, he received a scholarship that allowed him to travel to Urbino to pursue a five-year course. During his many study trips, he met Carlo Cardazzo, an important gallery owner who discovered many of the most renowned artists of the post-World War II era, and he had the opportunity to exhibit at his Milanese gallery for many years. While many know him for his portraits and landscape scenes depicting Venice, marked by a strong chromatic impact and expressionistic style, he also left his mark on the history of the twentieth century with major politically themed series such as "Reazionario in azione" (Reactionary in Action), "Oppositori in lotta" (Oppositionists in Struggle), and "Storia del Fascismo" (History of Fascism), the latter now held at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome. He also opened his own house museum, which he donated to the municipality of Comacchio. It exhibits his own works as well as those of the most important exponents of Italian art of the last century.

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