Franco Polizzi - Light on the House

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been a major aspiration for artists of every era. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance; then with atmospheric rendering in the sixteenth century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism.

For Franco Polizzi, landscape is a fundamental theme through which he expresses his passion for the harmony and balance of colors. Franco Polizzi's landscapes are almost completely devoid of presences—not just human, but also material. They often take the form of lands stretching as far as the eye can see. What matters are the landscape's chromatic transitions and what they can contribute to the composition. Thus, Polizzi's works take the form of delicate overlapping horizontal bands, where the transitions between one hue and another are attenuated by the fading of light.

Franco Polizzi was born in 1954 in Scicli. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, winning a scholarship that allowed him to exhibit at the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation. He participated in the Rome Quadrennial as early as 1975. Since 1984, he has lived in Rome, but returns frequently to Sicily. Among the most important events that have marked his career are exhibitions at the Forni galleries (Bologna), Bergamini (Milan), Basile and Galleria 61 (Palermo), Il Sagittario (Messina), Il Cenacolo (Piacenza), Il Tempietto (Brindisi), and Casa dei Carraresi (Treviso). Among the international exhibitions, Franco Polizzi, One man show, Art Exposition Chicago, Fiac in Paris and Basel, and, among the countless Italian ones, the X Quadriennale d'Arte in Rome, the XXXI Biennale in Milan, the '96 Antologica, in Treviso, at Casa dei Carraresi, curated by Marco Goldin, Elogio del pastello, at Palazzo Sarcinelli, in Conegliano (Treviso), the XIII Quadriennale d'Arte in Rome (when the work Torretta degli Iblei was purchased by the Chamber of Deputies) Per Amore, at Palazzo Sarcinelli in Conegliano.

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