Mario Ughi - Sea Air

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.

The work presents a still life executed with extraordinary realism. The space is deep and loses itself in the decontextualization of the dark background. The painter depicts the subjects with an almost Flemish precision and heightens the scene's sense of reality through the casual arrangement of the basket and fish. There is no attempt at idealization. Consistently, even formally, the painting adopts a highly dynamic pictorial style that, while conveying the subjects' volume, seeks to convey the complexity of human vision.

Mario Ughi was a Livorno painter, born in 1938 and passed away in 2012. His research began with Magic Realism and finally led to Surrealism, which was largely his signature style. He painted at the deconsecrated church of Villa Corridi, which the municipality had donated to him. In 1994, he created the Palio Marinaro for the municipality of Livorno.

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