Roberto La Carrubba - Landscape

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.

For Roberto La Carruba, depicting landscape means achieving, through painting, a delicate fusion between naturalistic rendering and poetry. Indeed, his views, in which he employs a purely figurative language, remain rooted in sensory data. Yet reality seems transfigured into a lyrical interpretation that almost transports it into a dreamlike dimension. Formally, this translates into a highly delicate pictorial style where reality is represented in a rarefied manner. This means that the capture of realistic details and particulars is lost in favor of a more expressionistic and symbolic language. La Carrubba's refined pictorial touch, which delicately synthesizes objects, plays a key role in this process. Thus, the color palette is also distinguished by a subtle anti-naturalistic tendency, whereby the immersion in neutral hues expresses the artist's poetic sensibility and his almost dreamlike interpretation of the landscape.

Roberto La Carrubba born in Francavillamare (CH) on 20-9-1915 lives in Rome. (Deceased 2001). In India for war reasons, from 1942 to 1946 he participated in international group exhibitions in New Delhi and Bangalore, and executed many portraits and important works. Returning to Italy he actively participated in national and international artistic life and was present: at the VI, VII, VIII, Rome Quadrennial at the Salon of the Independents in Paris (1955), at the Marzotto prize (1953) at various Michetti prizes; Avezzano prizes, Alatri Biennials, Review of the Arts of Southern Italy, the Rome and Lazio Biennials, Sulmona prize, L'Aquila, Latina Biennial, etc. He held 62 personal exhibitions in Italy - France - USA - Mexico - Venezuela.

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