Gianni Longinotti - News Story

In the history of art, a clear distinction can often be made between figurative and abstract stylistic movements. However, when an artist's goal is to represent an object that resonates with phenomenal reality but is also charged with hidden and symbolic meaning, this boundary can become blurred. Symbolism and Expressionism are emblematic stylistic movements in their conceptual interpretation of reality, with an iconic rendering of images and a symbolic interpretation in the use of color.

Gianni Longinotti's style is essentially figurative. Even his subjects are part of a real dimension, but the painter's interpretation transcends the sensory world, shifting the representation into a dreamlike mode. The composition is developed in a two-dimensional space, featuring elegant female figures, usually in monochrome and accentuated plasticity. In the rest of the composition, Langinotti skillfully balances a dense, spatula-like application of color with white. All this creates a sort of parallel dimension, a magical realism in which real events are transfigured for the purposes of an expressive language that seeks to transfer images from memory into the painting.

Gianni Langinotti was a Paduan painter born in 1927 and died in 2007. He initially adhered to the neorealist movement that was widespread in the postwar period. His subjects focused on civic and social issues, to which were also added biographical episodes of the artist. His success came especially in the 1960s, when he held numerous exhibitions thanks to collaborations with various galleries, including international ones.

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