Libero Vitali - Oriental Landscape

Landscape has always played a leading role in artistic research, both as a setting and a backdrop, but also as a subject in its own right. The naturalistic description of landscape has been one of the greatest aspirations for artists of every era. Each historical period has given its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its description: first with a study of space, through Brunelleschian perspective in the early Renaissance; then with the rendering of atmosphere in the sixteenth century; and finally with the representation of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism.

As we can see in this and other works by Libero Vitali, for the Venetian painter, the theme of landscape becomes a pretext for reconstructing the world through his perception and reducing it, therefore, to pure forms and pure colors. Sensory reality is thus subjected to a remarkable process of synthesis, but also of expressionistic distortion. The entire landscape is reduced to a series of thin lines which, intersecting, form chromatic fields in which the paint is applied in a compact manner. In this way, the perception of reality is transfigured into a complex interplay of chromatic balances and deliberate dissonances. The palette favors aggressive, almost violent colors, referencing the expressionist tradition. The exercise of reducing and abstracting reality flattens the pictorial space onto a two-dimensional surface. However, we can notice how the chromatic fields are arranged on overlapping planes that presuppose a complex conception of space, not univocal, but based on different directional lines. In this way, despite the pronounced synthesis, Vitali can investigate reality in depth, according to a process of decomposition that draws on Cubism.

Libero Vitali was born in Venice in 1928. He attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia and then moved to Milan, where, in 1958, he turned to the world of advertising graphics. His painting career took off in earnest in 1962, when he participated in an exhibition at the Galerie Espace in Paris, where he met Marc Chagall. In 1964, he held his first Milanese exhibitions at the Accademia and Lux Pilastro galleries; the following year he was in London, where he held a solo exhibition at the Lincoln Gallery and participated in a group exhibition at the O'Hanna Gallery; in 1965, he exhibited at the Amel gallery in New York. The following year, in Rome, he held an exhibition on cinema themes at Palazzo Sciarra, and in 1971, he exhibited paintings and sculptures at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni. In 1974, in Paris, he presented a solo exhibition at the Galerie Mouffe. In 1976, he created a large painting on the themes of road accidents, which was destined for the Camera del Lavoro in Naples. In 1978, Paolo Levi presented a solo exhibition of his paintings and glass sculptures at the Milanese gallery "Il Castello".

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