Vittorio Maria Di Carlo - Figure

The human figure has always been at the center of artistic research. Since the Classical era, the naturalistic rendering of human anatomy has been a primary goal of painters and sculptors throughout history. The representation of the female figure is an expression of this aspiration, pervasive across all eras and stylistic trends. Indeed, in addition to the naturalistic interpretations of the Renaissance and various classicisms, which aimed for a truthful and detailed representation of the human body, the female figure has also been a central figure in the new aesthetic concepts brought about by the historical avant-garde movements, such as Cubism, Expressionism, and Surrealism. And it is Cubism above all that informs the artistic language of Apulian artist Vittorio Maria Di Carlo, in his exploration of the female subject, a recurring theme in much of his work.

Vittorio Maria Di Carlo's artistic production seeks to combine the concreteness and realism of folk figures with a mechanomorphic reconstruction of tangible reality. The protagonists of his works are vigorous peasant women in traditional and folkloric attire. Their proportions are often monumental, in a free expansion of volumes. These volumes, however, are represented through a process of analytical decomposition and reconstruction typical of Cubism. The artist seeks to possess the entire structure of his subjects, considering all possible developments in time and space. For this reason, their forms unfold in a space that is no longer univocal, founded on a single perspectival center, but multidimensional, structured by the overlapping and incidence of planes. The synthesis achieved through Cubist decomposition strongly abstracts these figures, which, combined with their already popular and folkloric character, imbues them with an expressive force of archaic and mysterious charm.

Vittorio Maria Di Carlo was born in San Marco in Lamis in 1939. He initially trained at the State Art Institute of Bari and later graduated in Painting and Decoration with the masters Spizzico and De Robertis. He was part of the "Nuova Figurazione" group, achieving critical and public acclaim from his first exhibitions. He later settled in Milan, alternating between international sojourns. He has exhibited his works in major Italian and international cities. Among his many exhibitions are the one held in Bamberg during the fifth European Biennial and shows in Las Palmas, Barcelona, ​​Manila, Sydney, Zurich, Monte Carlo, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, and New York.

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