Gianni Karenini - Still Life

The "Still Life" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consists of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to attempt a photographic reproduction of reality, with contemporary art the "Still Life" also becomes a way of interpreting reality, as it did for the Cubists or Giorgio Morandi.

As we can see from this painting, Gianni Karenini has a keen sense of synthetic painting. His is a kind of object expressionism, which he reduces to a minimum with a very marked line and a two-dimensional structure. The protagonist is the densely textured pictorial layer, which almost creates a relief on the support.

Gianni Karenini is a self-taught painter who has been working since the late 1970s. He has had 53 solo exhibitions throughout Italy (Milan, Modena, Turin, Aosta, Ferrara, Bologna). He has lived in Crespina since 1987. Important figures such as Salvatore Quasimodo and Dino Villano have written about him.

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