Giuseppe Falchetti - Game

The "Still Life" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consisted of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to experiment with naturalistic or photographic reproductions of reality, with contemporary art, the "Still Life" also became a way of interpreting reality. Indeed, as happened, for example, in the Cubist avant-garde or in Giorgio Morandi, the in-depth exploration of objects was aimed at a conceptual representation, taken beyond the mere sensory element. The artist Giuseppe Falchetti specialized and achieved great fame precisely thanks to the "Still Life" genre. The main themes in his compositions are primarily hunting-related themes, as in the present work.

The style of artist Giuseppe Falchetti, in his still lifes, as well as in his depictions of animals and landscapes, displays a tendency that could be described as hyperrealist in contemporary art. Indeed, one can discern a desire to objectively and lucidly convey onto the canvas the sensory data before his eyes. Giuseppe Falchetti possesses a remarkable technique, rigorously classical and academic in its approach, even reminiscent of Flemish painting in the precision with which he reproduces various materials and surfaces and the effects of light falling on them. Despite its objective clarity and while avoiding overly accentuated atmospheric effects, Giuseppe Falchetti's technique is such that it naturally inserts objects into space, with a continuity and indefiniteness of contours. Indeed, the subject is illuminated in a suggestive and theatrical manner, emerging from the neutral background of the gray wall. It is noteworthy that the artist's great attention to compositional balance is always attributable to a classical taste. In this case, the artist organizes the objects in a rigorous pyramidal structure.

Giuseppe Falchetti was born in Caluso in 1843. At a young age, he moved to Turin, where he trained in Giuseppe Camino's workshop and opened his own studio in 1860. Through frequent visits to the Galleria Sabauda, ​​Falchetti began to develop an interest in still life, which would become one of the main themes of his work. His fame quickly spread among Turin's noble families, thanks to the extreme virtuosity of his technique, which was expressed in the impeccable realism of his still lifes and the naturalistic romanticism of his landscapes. His fame as a still life artist earned him a government commission in 1876 to reproduce Italian wine and table grapes in color plates. Some of Giuseppe Falchetti's paintings are preserved in the Municipality of Caluso and five still lifes in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Turin; the rest of his work is found almost entirely in private collections in Piedmont. Giuseppe Falchetti passed away in Turin in 1918.

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