Athos Faccincani - Reality and Fantasy

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and the Modern Era, but predominantly in an idealized manner. Scenes of city life became typical themes with a more realistic interpretation starting in the 19th century. It's worth remembering how, immediately following the realist movements of the 19th century, the Impressionists also placed great emphasis on the everyday, on everyday life, with a certain predilection, however, for the frenetic pace of the city, its crowds, traffic, and typically bourgeois settings.

The work is a typical example of Athos Faccincani's landscapes, inspired by coastal towns like Portofino, Capri, or Santorini. Faccincani's composition is based primarily on the distribution of color, with bright, almost Fauvist hues and a richness of light. This also underlies the artist's emphasis on flowers and vegetation, often in the foreground. Objects take shape through color. Houses, flowers, and streets appear in essential shapes, like patches of compact color. Space is almost nonexistent, so the entire composition resolves itself in an interlocking of objects attempting to arrange themselves on different planes.

The painter Athos Faccincani was born in Peschiera del Garda in 1951. His artistic career is distinguished by an initial, more expressionist phase, in which he painted a dark world, filled with suffering. It was a time when Faccincani frequented prisons and psychiatric hospitals to express this suffering. In his more recent phase, he has instead devoted himself to sun-drenched landscapes, which he creates in a style tending toward a more cheerful expressionism, close to Fauvism.

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