Cesare Ronchi - The Guardians of the Armchair

The subject depicted and the artist's interpretation suggest a satirical intent toward bourgeois society and its hypocrisies. The composition has a highly ironic and mocking tone.

The language used in this drawing by Cesare Ronchi has strong connections to the German New Objectivity artistic movement. It features the same simplified and childlike interpretation of a realism based on a marked plasticity. We find the same cynical nature of painters like George Grosz and Otto Dix in lashing out at their own society with lucid irony. The painting, created in the 1970s, is linked to the climate of intense questioning of the ruling classes that prevailed in Italy during those years.

Cesare Ronchi was born in Imola in 1936. He lives and works in Castel Bolognese and teaches plastic arts at the Faenza Art Institute. After graduating from the same institute, he distinguished himself by winning awards at ceramics exhibitions in Vicenza and Lerici. Between the 1960s and 1970s, he created several sculptures, winning further awards in Bassano del Grappa, Imola, Bologna (Ospedale Maggiore), Macerata, Lecce, Fermo, Naples, and Matera.

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