Giuseppe De Gregorio - Flashes of Light in the Woods

The work draws on an Informal aesthetic language. The devastation wrought by World War II left a profound mark on Western civilization, which in the visual arts also resulted in an inability to communicate. For some artists, this challenge led to a complete rejection of any visual language, resulting in the birth of Informal Art. The various Informal movements are certainly connected to American Abstract Expressionism, especially with regard to the gestural component, but they go further in their rejection of any figurative element, even geometric. Their research focuses instead on the material from which their works are composed.

As can be seen in this work, Giuseppe De Gregorio's artistic language begins with nature. He isolates a single detail and magnifies it to a macroscopic scale. Thus, he conducts an investigation of nature that delves so deeply that it reveals realities unknown to us. Formally, this translates into a pronounced biomorphism that completely pervades the work, becoming autonomous and losing all connection with phenomenal reality. In this way, we almost arrive at a paradox whereby a subject that begins with nature becomes informal.

Giuseppe De Gregorio was a painter originally from Spoleto, where he was born in 1920 and passed away in 2007. He trained in his hometown with the Gruppo dei Sei, where he began his exploration of informal art in the 1950s, winning several editions of the Spoleto Prize. It was the critic Francesco Arcangeli who brought him national recognition. From the 1970s, De Gregorio began to develop his distinctive style, which began with the depiction of enlarged details of natural elements, while remaining within the framework of an informal aesthetic. All this has established him as one of the most important representatives of Late Naturalism.

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