Sergio Tottolo - Landscape in Val d'Intelvi

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.

The work highlights Sergio Tottolo's post-Impressionist maturity. The composition is compressed entirely into the foreground, allowing no spatial depth. The painter's aim is not to capture the sensory aspect of the landscape, but to capture its very essence, its substance. To this end, the brushstroke, rich in texture, intervenes, fleshing out the objects, breaking them down into different planes, recording the vibrations of light and life within them. The sensory aspect, therefore, is completely transcended in a complex conception of pictorial practice in which the artist's gestures themselves play a fundamental role. In Tottolo's landscape paintings, the objects are constructed by the painter with broad, dense brushstrokes, and the houses are structured according to geometric principles inspired by Cézanne. Chromatically, the entire surface of the work is blended with a balanced palette of references and correspondences.

Sergio Tottolo is an artist originally from Bergamo. He is a painter devoted to fairly traditional genres, such as landscapes, still lifes, and floral compositions. His style tends toward post-impressionism, with some influence from the French artist Paul Cézanne.

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