Franco Antoni - The vice of gambling

The iconography of this painting certainly has allegorical meanings and can be defined, in some ways, as symbolist precisely because of its allusion to underlying meanings. It is a type of subject that can be traced back to the artistic language of late nineteenth-century painters such as Moreau, Bocklin, or Puvis des Chavannes, who, despite using a substantially figurative language, developed intellectually complex iconographies, full of symbolic and allegorical references.

The work's setting is highly scenographic: the painter accumulates various elements, filling the space. The representation unfolds on multiple levels and in different communicative registers. However, one can notice a substantially figurative language, rich in stimulating and intriguing details for the viewer and imbued with a certain expressionistic caricaturism.

Franco Antoni is a figurative painter whose taste leans toward complex iconographies with an allegorical and symbolic flavor. His artistic production shows affinities with the German New Objectivity movement, in the deformations of his subjects and their exaggerated plasticity, but he differs in his more painterly technique and a more vibrant color palette.

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