Alfio Presotto - Abandonment

Portraiture is one of the most widespread artistic expressions, especially in painting, but also in sculpture, throughout the ages. Portraiture is, first and foremost, a description of the subject depicted, an attempt to capture their physiognomy and individual characteristics truthfully and naturally. With the progressive evolution of artistic research, the physiognomic description of the subject has also been accompanied by a psychological one. Therefore, over the centuries, portraiture has also become a means of introspective investigation of the subject, their character, and their state of mind. The processes of abstraction brought about by contemporary art have contributed to this type of investigation.

Even in this charcoal, we can appreciate Alfio Presotto's extraordinary technical skill. His hyperrealism, however, here fades into a more nuanced naturalism that softens the material. The quality of the physiognomic and physical detail is as extraordinary. The play of expressive lines that the painter adds to the hair, making it more lively and fluid, is particularly beautiful.

Alfio Presotto is a Venetian painter born in 1940. He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and, in 1960, joined the Realism group in Milan. He has exhibited his paintings in numerous shows and festivals throughout Italy and beyond. In 1969, he exhibited at the USALBA exhibition in Milan, at the Salotto Rossini in Pesaro in 1970, and at the Salon Art Libre in Paris in 1974. In 1975, he exhibited at the Art Gallery of San Francisco and from 1989 to 1992 in Bergamo. In 2001-2002, he exhibited at Expoart in Montichiari and at Contemporanea Arte Forlì. In 2000-2002, he exhibited at the Galleria D'Ambrosio in Brescia, and in 2002 he participated in the exhibition “Il corpo e lo sguardo” at the Palazzo Ducale di Revere, Mantua.

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