Franco Angeli - Folk Song of the Andes

The work is a clear example of an expressionist landscape. Reality is interpreted in an extremely synthetic manner, with an almost brutal reduction. The surface is completely two-dimensional, with no concessions to spatial depth. Color is used according to an emotional and spiritual interpretation, without any connection to reality.

Like Mario Schifano, Franco Angeli also offers his own interpretation of the pop image of the postcard landscape. Franco Angeli's intervention, however, goes in a completely opposite direction. While Schifano recontextualizes the image through his pictorial interference, Franco Angeli distorts it by entrusting it entirely to mechanization. The landscape is reconstructed geometrically: without any consideration for sensitivity, the mountain profiles become a mixtilinear segment that finds its beauty in a rational balance of image and color.

Franco Angeli, a Roman painter born in 1935, was part of the Scuola di Piazza del Popolo starting in the 1960s. This group of painters, which also included Mario Schifano, met at the Caffè Rosati and shared an artistic language inspired by Pop Art but with a new sensibility also influenced by the experiments of American Abstract Expressionism. The use of symbols of consumer society, repeated serially, is distinctly Pop, but their pictorial interpretation, whether dirty or textured, or using gestural techniques like dripping, offers a new vision and a different reconfiguration.

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