Susanna Cascella - Untitled

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; up until the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism. The painting presents a desolate, flat landscape, bathed in a diaphanous light, featuring a few objects associated with seaside life: a beach umbrella and a cabin. A realistic subject, yet imbued with an unreal solitude that brings it closer to the metaphysical.

We can see how Susanna Cascella's execution is essentially figurative, rooted in objective reality. However, the interpretation is so stripped down to the essential that everything appears flat and immaterial. The composition is structured with a few lines that divide the painting into overlapping bands (beach, sky, sea) that leave no possibility of spatial depth. Even the light is unnatural, bluish, distributed equally across the entire scene. The brushstrokes convey subtle existential vibrations, but they are barely perceptible in the work's compact atmosphere, enclosed in its dimension of silence.

Susanna Cascella, second daughter of the sculptor Pietro, lives and works in Rome. Through decoration, she achieves an expressiveness that combines archaic and pure forms, refined even in relation to the art of those who preceded her in her extraordinary family.

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