Mario Gianello - Masks

Since the 19th century, when painting began to explore various aspects of bourgeois life, the circus world has been a theme explored by various artists. With the development of Symbolist and Expressionist movements between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the figure of the acrobat, circus performer, or mask began to gain popularity, as it played a key role in the development of complex iconographies with hidden and mysterious meanings. Examples include the figures of artists and harlequins immortalized by Picasso during his "blue" and "rose" periods. During the 1970s and 1980s, it became a true genre, practiced by many painters, who focused their interest primarily on the figure of the clown.

The style of painter Mario Gianello, in some of his works, is characterized by the development of a strongly expressionist language. The artist seeks to go beyond what is perceived by the senses to extrapolate the true essence of reality and communicate it on canvas in a lively and dynamic manner. For this reason, through the application of color, he develops a highly synthesised process that reduces subjects to dense, material layers of paint, in which the painter's emotion, conveyed through his gestures, also plays a key role. All these elements together constitute the expressionistic power of Mario Gianello's painting. This power is also based on a specific aesthetic choice that reaffirms the tone of his works: that of favoring chromatic impastos that definitively transcend any contact with the sensory, so that the choice of colors is dictated solely by symbolic and spiritual values.

Mario Gianello is an artist from Bologna, born in 1935. A rather eclectic painter, he divides his research between more traditional and figurative subjects and expressionistic experiments.

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