Franco Marzilli - Untitled

The "Still Life" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consisted of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to experiment with naturalistic or photographic reproductions of reality, with contemporary art, the "Still Life" also became a way of interpreting reality. Indeed, as happened, for example, in the Cubist avant-garde or in Giorgio Morandi, the in-depth exploration of objects was aimed at a conceptual representation, taken beyond the mere sensory aspect.

The style developed by Franco Marzilli highlights a post-Impressionist maturity. The compositions are all compressed into the foreground, without allowing any spatial depth. The painter's aim is not to capture the sensory aspect of the subject, but to capture its very essence, its substance. To this end, the brushstroke, rich in texture, intervenes, which, despite the essentiality of the representation, fleshes out the objects, breaking them down into different planes, recording the vibrations of light and life within them.

Franco Marzilli was born in Rome in 1934. He began exhibiting in 1962 in various Italian galleries and, between the late 1960s and early 1970s, was invited to present his work in New York, London, and Paris, where he lived for a short time. Upon returning to Italy, he moved to live in the Sabine countryside. Among his many exhibitions in private galleries and public spaces, noteworthy are his solo shows at the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences of Cardiff University in 1973 and at the Sala de Exposiciones of the City of Buenos Aires in 1997. Among the many illustrious critics who have examined his work are Carmine Benincasa, Toni Bonavita, Carlo Fabrizio Carli, Costanzo Costantini, Floriano De Santi, Carlo Giacomozzi, Sebastiano Grasso, Michelangelo Masciotta, Ruggero Martines, Carlo Melloni, Dario Micacchi, Terence Mullaly, Edith Schloss, Guglielmo
Petroni, Marcello Venturoli, and Max Wykes-Joice. Franco Marzilli died in Poggio Mirteto in 2010.

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