Aligi Sassu - Maternity

The iconography of motherhood is closely linked to the subject of the Madonna and Child. It is probably one of the most popular iconographies in the history of both Western and Eastern art. The Madonna and Child appears since the dawn of medieval painting and remained a constant subject as long as religious themes dominated artistic production (that is, until the 19th century, when themes inspired by everyday life began to be introduced).

This work is a striking example of Aligi Sassu's artistic production. While employing figurative language and remaining within the framework of a harmonious and classical composition, he nevertheless embraces anti-naturalistic constraints. In this sculpture, for example, we see how the subjects' physiognomy and plasticity draw on a classical conception of the human figure. However, Sassu distorts reality, deforming it to make it more dynamic and expressive. First, he compresses the space, almost eliminating depth and forcing the group to fill the entire surface of the painting. The modeling of the bodies is highly complex and demonstrates a taste for material manipulation and sculptural expressionism that is exquisitely contemporary. Furthermore, Sassu works extensively on a frenetic dynamic rhythm, dictated by the mass of hair, which characterizes the work with a dense linearity that guarantees great expressive vigor.

Aligi Sassu, born in Milan in 1912 and died in 2000, was a painter and sculptor. His painting efforts focused primarily on the representation of movement and physical strength, which is why the subject of the horse or man on horseback was always congenial to him. In the late 1970s, he and Bruno Munari drafted the pictorial manifesto "Dynamism and Muscular Reform," which called for a return to anti-naturalistic forms in a dynamic sense. Much of his painting, moreover, is inspired by Delacroix and his battles.

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