Virgilio Guidi - Venice Circular

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 always been an artist's aspiration. 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 16th century, up until the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism.

The subject is a distinctive feature of Virgilio Guidi's oeuvre, a view of the Venetian lagoon, and the painter's treatment of it is also characteristic, in this case in an engraving on a plate. Guidi employs a remarkable process of synthesis in his poetics, almost dissolving the objects in the predominant light brought 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 touch. In this engraving, the silvery surface replaces the pictorial material, with the same aesthetically striking result of immersion in light.

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.

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