Virgilio Guidi - 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; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism. One of the most recurring themes in Virgilio Guidi's work is the view of the Venetian lagoon, of which he created numerous versions to develop his personal exploration of color, light, and the perception of reality.

The subject is peculiar to Virgilio Guidi's work, a view of the Venetian lagoon, and the painter's treatment of it is also characteristic. Guidi employs a remarkable process of synthesis in his paintings, almost dissolving the objects in the predominant light, brought about by the color that occupies almost the entire surface. Light/color also signifies a vast space, in which the buildings are lost, shimmering in the atmosphere and rendered by the artist with a simple brushstroke. Thus Guidi reduces the entire reality to a pure perceptive exercise, formally resolved in the vast distribution of color and a rational division of the pictorial space into balanced horizontal bands of color. The undeniable charm of a pictorial style that strikes a delicate and uncertain balance between figuration and pure abstraction remains constant in every Venetian view by Virgilio Guidi.

Virgilio Guidi was born in Rome in 1891 and trained as a painter in the capital under Sartorio at the Academy of Fine Arts, and then Spadini. He later developed his own reflections on Giotto and Piero della Francesca. Guidi, however, owes his success to the city of Venice, whose lagoon views he immortalized in canvases that earned him the nickname "poet of light." Indeed, in his paintings, the sense of light is so strong that objects dissolve, creating compositions bordering on abstraction. Virgilio Guidi passed away in Venice in 1984.

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