Manuel Campus - Still Life

The "Still Life" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consists of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to attempt a photographic reproduction of reality, with contemporary art the "Still Life" also becomes a way of interpreting reality, as it did for the Cubists or Giorgio Morandi.

Even in this still life (a genre less cultivated by Campus than portraits), we can recognize the hand of the Sardinian artist. His realism, with marked expressionist tendencies, is evident in this work as well. There is meticulous attention to detail in the depiction of the subjects, depicted without any kind of idealization in a simple and unassuming context. Formally, Manuel Campus's elegant synthesis prevails, with his linearity and the subtly accentuated volumes of the objects.

Manuel Campus is an artist of Sardinian origin, born in Domus De Maria in 1928, but lives and works in Bazzano Inferiore, near Spoleto. He established himself as an artist from a young age, including in ceramics; he directed the Piediluco Ceramics School and the Rieti Art Institute. Many of his works have been acquired by important national and international museums, as well as by banks and religious institutions, hospitals, municipalities, prefectures, and private collections. From 1951 to 2004, he held numerous solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad. He has received numerous awards, honorary citizenships, and recognitions. Among others, in 1991, on the occasion of the 23rd edition of the "Golden Saint Valentine" International Award, the Committee for the Award of a Message of Love named him an honorary member of the Valentinian Academy.

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