Mario Busellato - Winter Village

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been a major aspiration for artists of every era. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance; then with atmospheric rendering in the sixteenth century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism.

For artist Mario Busellato, depicting landscape means achieving, through painting, a delicate fusion between naturalistic rendering and poetry. Indeed, his views, in which he employs a purely figurative language, remain rooted in sensory data. Yet reality seems transfigured into a lyrical interpretation that almost transports it into a dreamlike dimension. Formally, this translates into a highly delicate pictorial style where reality is represented in a rarefied manner. This means that the capture of realistic details and particulars is lost in favor of a more expressionistic and symbolic language. Complicit in this approach is Busellato's refined pictorial touch, which delicately synthesizes objects and his use of glass. Thus, the color palette is also distinguished by a delicate anti-naturalistic tendency, whereby the immersion in white and the exaltation of violets expresses the artist's poetic sensibility and his almost dreamlike interpretation of the landscape.

Mario Busellato (1935-1993) was one of the leading figures in Italian oil painting on glass. His artistic career began in 1975 with solo exhibitions at the Galleria Bijan in Bolzano and the EUR Center in Rome. In the following years, he exhibited in numerous Italian and European cities, from Florence, with a solo exhibition in 1979 at the Galleria Michelangelo, to Rotterdam, where the Marcan Gallery presented a major exhibition of his work that same year. In 1984, his works were presented at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Salsomaggiore, and in 1989, Selection Art curated a retrospective of his work in Turin at the Galleria d'Arte Portici on Via Cernaia. The press and critics devoted considerable coverage to his research and work, from Corriere della Sera to Rai Tre, with a feature on his 1981 exhibition in Trento.

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