Salvatore Fratantonio (attribution) - Untitled

Flowers as an independent subject began to appear in still lifes, a genre that emerged in the early 17th century. Subsequently, painters, especially the Impressionists, increasingly focused on the floral world as an extraordinary opportunity to capture vibrant colors and light. Thus, flowers were depicted not only in vases, but also immersed in their natural landscape. If at the beginning of its history,
History was a pretext for painters to try their hand at a photographic reproduction of reality, with contemporary art the subject of flowers also becomes a way of interpreting reality.

In his pictorial research, Salvatore Fratantonio begins with the sensory data of the objects depicted, but completely transfigures the representation into a dimension other than phenomenal reality. Indeed, the image produced seems to escape the contingency and concreteness of reality, instead taking on the appearance of a fleeting apparition. From a conceptual perspective, what Fratantonio seems to be grasping is a fleeting reflection of the subject, the ephemeral image of memory. For it is there, in our consciousness and not in sensory reality, that the artist seeks to unearth the true essence of the objects depicted. Formally, all this is expressed in a highly synthetic execution in which the flowers are emptied of their materiality and plastic concreteness. The forms are still discernible, but as the result of a pure pictorial vibration. Everything appears
extremely lively and dynamic, almost elusive, like the images stored in the memory.

Salvatore Fratantonio was born in Modica in 1938, in his native city. From a very young age, he chose his passion: painting. As a teenager, he began to develop a passion for painting at the age of 14 or 15, apprenticing in the workshops of local masters. After a brief stay in other places, he found Milan the city most suited to him and moved there in 1964. It would take too much space to list all the events that took place there.
they had him as the protagonist. Among over one hundred events, we limit ourselves to highlighting the most important ones from 2000 onwards: In 2000 at the Galleria Bonaparte in Milan, Galleria Giovasse in Milan, New Art Gallery of Termoli in Campobasso, in 2001 Arianna Sartori-Arte in Mantua, in 2002 Galleria Ciovasso in Milan, in 2003 Banca Popolare Agricola di Ragusa in Milan, Palazzo Mormino in Donnalucata (Scicli – RG) with the painter Giorgio Modica, in 2004 at the Palazzo Comunale Ibla in Ragusa, in 2005 at “U cento Spazio Robbretì” in Caronno Pertusete (VA), Banca Popolare Agricola dì Ragusa in Milan, Castello Chiaramontano Racalmuto (AG), in 2006 Galleria BuonapArte in Milan, in Modica foyer Teatro Garibaldi, in 2007 in Turin at the Villa Amoretti Library, at the Circolo degli Artisti, in Fossano at the Società di Mutuo Relief between Workers and Artists, in Ragusa at the Ibla Railway Station, in Carmagnola at the Workers' Mutual Aid Society "F. Bussone".

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