Guido La Regina - Untitled

The human figure has always been at the center of artistic research. Since the classical age, the naturalistic rendering of human anatomy has been a primary goal of painters and sculptors throughout history. The representation of the nude is the ultimate expression of this aspiration, pervasive across all eras and stylistic trends. Indeed, in addition to the naturalistic interpretations of the Renaissance and various classicisms, which aimed for a truthful and detailed representation of the human body, the nude has also been a central figure in the new aesthetic concepts brought about by the historical avant-garde, such as Cubism, Expressionism, and Surrealism.

This reclining nude by Guido La Regina has all the hallmarks of an expressionist interpretation of the subject. Indeed, we are faced with a brutal synthesis of the figure, emptied of all volume and reduced to a simple silhouette. The expressive values, then, must be sought precisely in the artist's dark, tormented, highly personal style, which is the same that characterizes his abstract art.

Guido La Regina was born in Naples in 1909, but his artistic career took place almost entirely in Rome, where he moved in 1946. In Rome, he frequented Leoncillo, Mazzacurati, and the critic Giulio Carlo Argan. His artistic language took shape with the Genesi series, in which the artist explored an abstraction characterized by geometric rigor and chromatic exuberance.

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