Gianni Visentin - Breastfeeding Motherhood

The iconography of motherhood is closely linked to the subject of the Madonna and Child. It is probably one of the most popular iconographies in the history of both Western and Eastern art. The Madonna and Child appears since the dawn of medieval painting and remained a constant subject as long as religious themes dominated artistic production (that is, until the 19th century, when themes inspired by everyday life began to be introduced). It is quite common for contemporary artists to treat the iconography of motherhood without directly linking it to the Christian religion.

Looking at this work, we can fully appreciate the sculptural quality of Gianni Visentin. His extraordinary technique allows him to consistently achieve a completely naturalistic rendering. The subject is always meticulously crafted with meticulous attention to detail. However, in this Maternity, Visentin clearly seeks a more expressionist stylistic style, through a striking contrast in his different approaches to the material. While the more physiognomic aspects of the subjects, such as faces and hands, are treated with the sculptor's trademark naturalistic rendering, the entire mass of the group is left almost raw. The clothing and hair as a whole are treated with distinctly material connotations, making the surface extremely vibrant and alive. Thus, the more realistic parts, with their perfectly smooth surfaces, almost seem to emerge from the roughly sketched mass in a struggle for form over matter, clearly referencing Michelangelo's work and its contemporary interpretations by masters such as Rodin and Medardo Rosso.

Gianni Visentin was a Venetian sculptor born in Tra Vettore di Rosà in 1938 and who passed away in 2010. A stay in Paris between the mid-1960s and the late 1970s was crucial to his artistic development, allowing him to come into contact with avant-garde art circles and movements. In 1997, he founded the Arte Positiva movement, which found its home in his studio-museum in Carpanè, where many of the artist's works are collected. Some of Visentin's works have been donated to illustrious figures such as John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev.

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