Salvatore Fiume - The Terrace of the Statues

This type of subject can be classified within the metaphysical aesthetic. The artistic movement founded by Giorgio de Chirico reclaims images that already exist, familiar to the collective imagination. However, it creates an effect of alienation through the process of displacement, that is, the sudden appearance of an object outside its usual context, or through condensation, the fusion of multiple objects into a single entity. Metaphysical art is also distinguished by the ostentatiously illusory nature of its images.

The work appears to be a genuine homage paid by painter Salvatore Fiume to De Chirico's "Italian Squares" series. This terrace of statues, in fact, is also characterized by a series of architecturally rationalist buildings that create an enigmatic space, frozen in an atmosphere of suspension. For Fiume, moreover, the lucid rationality typical of Metaphysical Art is a further pretext for his exploration of form and plasticity. However, the Sicilian master embraces the metaphysical model, adapting it to his own aesthetic demands. Thus, he forgoes the dry hyperrealism of De Chirico to advocate his usual expressionist language. Indeed, Salvatore Fiume's line, even though he deals with a rationalist subject in this work, remains as lively and vibrant as in his sensual female characters. The line is elegantly synthetic, even in delineating clear volumes, while the colors are bright and full of light.

Salvatore Fiume was born in 1915 in Comiso and died in Milan in 1997. In addition to being a painter and sculptor, he was also an architect. His career as a painter focused on a reinterpretation of classicism, particularly Renaissance painting and Piero della Francesca. Later, thanks to his success, he traveled extensively around the world, drawing inspiration from exotic folklore, which he rendered in an expressionist manner.

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